The motion for the handwriting exemplar is set for a hearing before Boswell on Friday, when the judge is expected to rule on whether the two murder cases should be tried together.

CROWN POINT — A Portage man charged in connection with two homicides last year in Gary must provide a handwriting sample to the state, a judge ruled Thursday.

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Baird said the first handwriting exemplar was insufficient for her to complete her comparison to the questioned documents.

Former Greene County Sheriff’s deputy Maj. Eric Spicer was recently ordered to submit handwriting samples to federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors want Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell to make Vann provide a handwriting sample, called an exemplar, to compare to the letter.