Justices consider ‘youth program center’ issue

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Walter Whatley isn’t disputing the fact that he was in possession of cocaine and that he should be held accountable for that.

Instead, the Indianapolis defendant argues that he shouldn’t have been convicted of Class A felony cocaine possession, which is what he was charged with given that he had the cocaine within 1,000 feet of a “youth program center” or a church near his home, where police arrested him after finding more than three grams of the illegal substance on him.