hungrycoyote has a good write up regarding the The 1965 Charles Cotner Case, and it provides a great brief into the case and some good details. What I would like to focus on in this diary is the importance of elections and our judiciary system.
With that I'll be introducing you to the Indiana Judiciary system and how elections can influence it. Normally when you get to the supreme level, Judges are appointed but very often people lack realization that those appointees often come from lower courts where those judges are selected from partisan elections.
So lets hammer the orange gavel, get beyond the corn fields and look into the Indiana Judiciary system.