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Alexa joined the Indiana Lawyer staff in January 2023 after earning her bachelor’s degree from Franklin College. During her undergraduate years, she worked as a freelance reporter for the Shelbyville News and Johnson County Daily Journal, a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news intern for the Evansville Courier & Press and a news content intern for WFYI Public Media.

First job: Scooping ice cream at Inside Scoop
Favorite movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Favorite book: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Personal hype song: The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy
Hobbies: Reading and knitting (I’m a grandma in a 23-year-old’s body)

Articles

COA affirms 12-year sentence in rape case, but cites double jeopardy in reversing criminal confinement, pair of sexual battery convictions

An Evansville man’s 12-year aggregate sentence for rape and one count of sexual battery was appropriate, given his prior criminal history and the nature of his sex crimes, but his criminal confinement and two additional sexual battery convictions violated his protection against double jeopardy, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in a partial reversal.

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