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</font></font><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">replaced by ?</font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Indiana’s top lawyer, Attorney General Curtis Hill, found himself on the witness stand this autumn as the nearly two-year-old sexual misconduct scandal clouding his administration continued to play out. The embattled AG insists he is innocent of charges that he groped a lawmaker and made drunken sexual advances toward three legislative staffers.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“Absolutely not,” Hill said in response to the accusations on the stand Oct. 24, toward the conclusion of a remarkable weeklong attorney discipline case. Hearing officer and former Justice Myra Selby presided over a case in which Hill’s accusers opened the testimony by describing his conduct as he milled about AJ’s Lounge at a now-infamous March 2018 party celebrating the end of that year’s session of the Indiana General Assembly.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Democratic Rep. Mara Candaleria Reardon testified that an intoxicated Hill firmly groped her buttocks beneath her backless dress, prompting her to tell him, “Back off. What the f—?” Hill’s other accusers — Gabrielle McLemore Brock, Niki DaSilva and Samantha Lozano — also testified that the AG made unwanted sexual advances toward them. The four separately have sued Hill and the state in federal court, a matter which is pending while Hill’s disciplinary case unfolds.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Potentially hanging in the balance is Hill’s ability to continue serving as attorney general. Selby will ultimately file a hearing officer’s report that may recommend a sanction against his law license, after which it will be up to the Indiana Supreme Court to determine what, if any, discipline it will impose.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Hill’s defense team argued against the proceedings, noting that the AG was not criminally charged by a special prosecutor and that the Indiana inspector general cleared him after investigating the allegations against him. While the disciplinary proceedings permitted Hill to mount a defense against the accusations, they also expanded the claims against him to include testimony of repeated sexual harassment from a former employee in the Elkhart County Prosecutor’s Office, back when Hill was the local elected officeholder.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">As Hill continued to dismiss calls to resign from Gov. Eric Holcomb and legislative leaders in both parties because of the accusations against him, several lawyers announced their candidacies to unseat him at the ballot box next year, including one fellow Republican.</p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">==</font></font></div></div></div></div>