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this Memorandum Decision shall not be 

regarded as precedent or cited before 

any court except for the purpose of 

establishing the defense of res judicata, 

collateral estoppel, or the law of the case.

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT: ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE:

JOEL M. SCHUMM GREGORY F. ZOELLER

Appellate Clinic Attorney General of Indiana

IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law

PAUL T. BABCOCK IAN MCCLEAN

Certified Legal Intern Deputy Attorney General

Appellate Clinic Indianapolis, Indiana

IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Indianapolis, Indiana

IN THE

COURT OF APPEALS OF INDIANA

JOSEPH ROLLE, )

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Appellant/Defendant, )

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vs. ) No. 49A05-1406-CR-252

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STATE OF INDIANA, )

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Appellee/Plaintiff. )

APPEAL FROM THE MARION SUPERIOR COURT 

The Honorable Amy M. Jones, Judge

Cause No. 49F08-1401-CM-596

December 29, 2014

MEMORANDUM DECISION - NOT FOR PUBLICATION

VAIDIK, Chief Judge
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Case Summary

Joseph Rolle was convicted of Class B misdemeanor disorderly conduct and Class 

C misdemeanor refusal to identify. On appeal, he argues that the evidence is insufficient 

to support his convictions. Because we find the evidence sufficient, we affirm the trial 

court.

Facts and Procedural History

Rolle, a street performer, plays the drums and blows a whistle at various locations 

around downtown Indianapolis. On the afternoon of January 4, 2014, Indianapolis 

Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Joseph McAtee encountered Rolle playing 

his drums and blowing his whistle near 300 South Capitol Avenue. Lieutenant McAtee 

“pulled up along by [sic] [Rolle], got his attention, [and] motioned for him to stop 

playing the drums and leave.” Tr. p. 7. Lieutenant McAtee then drove away. This was 

not Lieutenant McAtee’s first encounter with Rolle; a week earlier, Lieutenant McAtee 

had informed Rolle “that [he] was done warning [Rolle] to quit . . . .” Id. Lieutenant 

McAtee had also arrested Rolle for disorderly conduct and failure to identify in 2012.

Later that night, Lieutenant McAtee encountered Rolle a second time. Rolle was 

still playing his drums and blowing his whistle near 300 South Capitol Avenue. The area 

was loud and full of people because the Indianapolis Colts were playing at nearby Lucas 

Oil Stadium. Id. at 6, 8. Lieutenant McAtee and his fellow officers were using whistles 

to direct traffic. Id. at 8 (“[The officers are] in the street, directing traffic, using a whistle 

to inform the other officers that we’re getting ready to change traffic from pedestrian to 

vehicular traffic.”). Rolle’s drums and whistle, which were louder than “all the people in 
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the street and . . . all the noise,” drowned out the officers’ commands to one another as 

well as the instructions coming through their police radios. Id. 

Lieutenant McAtee walked up to Rolle and “instructed him to stop several times.” 

Id. at 10. Lieutenant McAtee also asked Rolle for his name, address, and identification. 

Id. at 9, 10, 12-14. Rolle responded that Lieutenant McAtee knew his name. Id. at 9, 11, 

14. But despite his previous interactions with Rolle, Lieutenant McAtee could not 

remember his name. Id. at 9. Rolle “continued to play the drums while [Lieutenant

McAtee] was trying to get him to stop.” Id. at 9-10. Rolle told Lieutenant McAtee that 

“he wasn’t going to stop and that [Lieutenant McAtee] would have to arrest him.” Id. at 

10. Because Rolle “refused to provide identification, refused to stop the drums . . . [and] 

started demanding that [Lieutenant McAtee] arrest him,” Lieutenant McAtee placed him 

under arrest. Id.

The State charged Rolle with Class B misdemeanor disorderly conduct and Class 

C misdemeanor refusal to identify. Rolle’s bench trial lasted two days, with a six-week 

lapse between the first and second trial dates. After the trial, the trial court found Rolle 

guilty as charged and imposed a suspended sentence on both counts, with credit for time 

served. Id. at 70-71; Appellant’s App. p. 12. Rolle now appeals. 

Discussion and Decision

Rolle argues that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions for 

disorderly conduct and refusal to identify. 

When reviewing the sufficiency of evidence, we do not reweigh evidence or judge 

witness credibility; rather, we consider only the evidence and reasonable inferences most 
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favorable to the judgment. Wood v. State, 999 N.E.2d 1054, 1063-64 (Ind. Ct. App. 

2013) (citation omitted), trans. denied, cert. denied. This review respects the factfinder’s

“exclusive province to weigh conflicting evidence.” Id. (citing Allen v. State, 844 N.E.2d 

534, 536 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006), trans. denied). We must affirm if a reasonable trier of fact 

could find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt based upon the probative 

evidence and reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence presented. Id.

In order to convict Rolle of misdemeanor disorderly conduct as charged in this 

case, the State was required to show that he recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally made 

unreasonable noise and continued to do so after being asked to stop. See Ind. Code § 35-

45-1-3(a)(2). To convict Rolle of refusal to identify, the State was required to prove that 

Rolle knowingly or intentionally refused to provide either his name, address, and date of 

birth, or his driver’s license to Lieutenant McAtee after he stopped Rolle for an infraction 

or ordinance violation. See Ind. Code § 34-28-5-3.5.

There is sufficient evidence to support Rolle’s disorderly conduct conviction.1 On 

the night of his arrest, Rolle was playing his drums and blowing his whistle near Lucas 

Oil Stadium. Lieutenant McAtee and his fellow officers, who were stationed near Rolle, 

 

1 Specifically, the evidence of Rolle’s interaction with Lieutenant McAtee on the night of January 

4 is sufficient to support his disorderly conduct conviction. On appeal, Rolle overlooks this evidence and 

argues that the trial court convicted him of disorderly conduct based on Lieutenant McAtee’s previous 

orders to stop making noise—one order earlier in the day on January 4 and another a week earlier. Rolle 

bases his assertion in part on the trial court’s statement in pronouncing sentence: “My notes do say that it 

was one week earlier [Lieutenant] McAtee told you to stop and so I am going to find that there is that 

previous order to stop . . . .” Tr. p. 70. We reject Rolle’s view of the trial court’s statement. The court 

made this statement on the second day of Rolle’s trial, which took place six weeks after the first trial date, 

and just before making this statement, the court stated that it was having difficulty remembering all the 

evidence from the first trial date, including Lieutenant McAtee’s testimony about the events on the night 

of January 4. We do not believe that the court’s statement about Lieutenant McAtee’s week-old order 

was the sole justification for its judgment of guilt—it was simply a reference to one piece of evidence

presented six weeks earlier. When considering that evidence in light of the substantial other evidence 

favorable to the judgment, we find no error. 
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were using whistles to direct traffic. Although the area was loud and full of people 

attending a Colts game, Rolle’s drums and whistle were louder than “all the people in the 

street and . . . all the noise,” and drowned out the officers’ commands to one another as 

well as the instructions coming through their police radios. Tr. p. 8. Lieutenant McAtee 

walked up to Rolle and “instructed him to stop several times.” Id. at 10. Rolle continued 

to play the drums and told Lieutenant McAtee that he was not going to stop and that 

Lieutenant McAtee would have to arrest him. Id. Considering only the evidence and 

reasonable inferences most favorable to the trial court’s judgment, we conclude that the 

evidence is sufficient to support Rolle’s disorderly conduct conviction.

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We also find that there is sufficient evidence to support Rolle’s conviction for 

refusal to identify. When Lieutenant McAtee approached Rolle and asked him to stop 

playing his drums and whistle, he also asked Rolle for his name, address, and 

identification. Id. at 12. Rolle refused to provide any identifying information and said 

that Lieutenant McAtee already knew his name. On appeal, Rolle argues that he cannot 

be guilty of knowingly refusing to identify himself because he “reasonably believed that 

Lieutenant McAtee knew his name, address, and date of birth because of their regular 

interaction and [Lieutenant] McAtee’s prior arrest of Rolle.” Appellant’s Br. p. 15. But 

that is not a reasonable belief. Our law-enforcement officers cannot be expected to 

remember the names, addresses, and birth dates of every individual they encounter, even 

those they encounter frequently. Rolle had a statutory obligation to identify himself to 

 

2 Because the evidence shows that Lieutenant McAtee verbally instructed Rolle to stop playing 

the drums and blowing his whistle just minutes before his arrest, see Tr. p. 10, we need not address his 

argument that the disorderly conduct statute is unconstitutional as applied to him because his conviction 

was based on an hours-old or week-old instruction to stop playing the drums and blowing his whistle. 
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Lieutenant McAtee; his previous interactions with Lieutenant McAtee—including an 

arrest more than a year earlier—did not relieve him of his duty. We affirm Rolle’s 

refusal-to-identify conviction. 

Affirmed. 

BAKER, J., and RILEY, J., concur.