Donald Johnson’s securities fraud trial is going forward Nov. 13 — period. That was Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer’s oft-repeated phrase during a Friday hearing on a slew of motions filed by Johnson, for a bench trial, for Clymer to reconsider another interlocutory appeal with the state appellate court, for funding to assist with his defense In a case that’s dragged on in court for .
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Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer had no hesitation during a Tuesday court hearing in saying that, after more than 9 years, the multi-count securities fraud case against Donald M. Johnson had gone on for too long without a resolution. That weighed in Johnson’s favor as Clymer considered the defendant’s third motion to dismiss the case against him, filed on June 29 and alleging that .
After a stretch of nearly a decade, the securities fraud case against Donald M. Johnson just might be nearing a conclusion. Johnson, 58, of Porter, was first charged in Porter Superior Court in March 2014 with 14 counts related to securities fraud, Class C felonies at the time. A couple of months later, he was charged with one count of forgery, also a Class C felony, and two counts of theft, .