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IN Passes Excrement Law
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 4
Senate Enrolled Act #56, which went into effect on July 1, 1995, added a new section to the Indiana Criminal Code which makes it a crime to "knowingly or intentionally in a rude, insolent, or angry manner place blood or another body fluid or waste on a Law Enforcement Officer …
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