BENNER v. CARLTON

No. 22-1139.

58 F.4th 923 (2023)

Mark BENNER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Jesse CARLTON, Chief Probation Officer of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 26, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Kindley , Attorney, South Bend, IN, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Tyler Banks , Caryn Nieman Szyper , Attorneys, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Easterbrook, Hamilton, and Brennan, Circuit Judges.


A statute in Indiana makes it a crime for anyone who "has or had" a professional relation with a person under the age of 18 to "use[] or exert[] the person's professional relationship to engage in sexual intercourse" with that young person. Ind. Code § 35-42-4-7(n). A jury convicted Mark Benner of violating this...

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