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2024–2026 · GRABILL AND ALLEN SUPERIOR COURT
Marcia Linsky, 64, spent her whole working life inside the institution that would have to try her killing. She had been an Allen County prosecutor; she had been a magistrate of the county's courts; and she was working, at the end, as a public defender — more than thirty years in the legal community of the county, in all three of the roles its courtrooms hold. She lived with her boyfriend, Charles Michael Calvert, in a home near Grabill. The Allen County Prosecuting Attorney's office dates her killing to 3 February 2024. On 13 February 2024 Calvert called 911 and reported, as the court documents state his account, that Linsky had come at him with a knife; officers who responded to the home found her dead. The two dates stand in the county's record as the county states them, and they are printed here as they stand. The investigation was the Allen County Sheriff's Department's, and Calvert was charged with murder.
The trial came two and a half years later, in the courthouse where the victim had worked. It began on Monday, 28 September 2026, in Allen Superior Court and ran three and a half days. Calvert's account — that he had acted in self-defense — was the defense. On 1 October 2026 the jury convicted him of murder after approximately thirty minutes of deliberation. The case was covered beyond the county, in the national legal press: the ABA Journal's account of the verdict led with the collapse of the self-defense claim. Sentencing followed on 28 October 2026. Family members, friends and colleagues gave victim-impact statements remembering a lawyer who, in the prosecutor's summary of the hearing, had helped everyone she met; Calvert addressed the court at length before sentence, maintaining his account, and WANE's report of the hearing recorded the presiding judge calling his remarks “absolutely tone deaf.” The court imposed the maximum sentence Indiana law allows for murder: sixty-five years. The prosecutor's office, announcing the sentence on 30 October 2026, described Linsky as “a respected member of the Allen County legal community who served as a prosecutor, magistrate, and public defender.” It is the most recent case in this section, and its profile is of a particular kind: a murder inside the legal community itself, tried in its own rooms, before its own people, and closed at the maximum the law provides.
Sources:
- Allen County Prosecuting Attorney, verdict release, 1 October 2026, and sentencing release, 28–30 October 2026
- WANE 15, trial and sentencing coverage, October 2026
- ABA Journal, verdict coverage, 2 October 2026