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Parties Involved:
Gary Lee McColpin
Appellant
Robert T. Stephan
Appellee

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

GARY LEE McCOLPIN, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

ROBERT T. STEPHAN, 

Defendant-Appellee. 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 90-3004 

(D.C. No. 89-3024-S) 

(D. Kansas) 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR and TACHA, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); lOth Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

This matter is before the court on plaintiff-appellant Gary 

Lee McColpin's motion for leave to proceed on appeal without 

prepayment of costs or fees. This is the second appeal on 

identical issues filed by McColpin. Since the issues are 

identical, we dismiss the appeal based on the analysis stated in 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. lOth Cir. R. 36.3. 

Appellate Case: 90-3004 Document: 01019565805 Date Filed: 07/31/1990 Page: 1 
McColpin v. Commissioners of City of Wichita, No. 89-3279 (lOth 

Cir. March 20, 1990). 

The substitution of Attorney General Stephan, who was the 

judge at McColpin's trial, as a defendant, in place of the city of 

Wichita, does not affect the statute of limitations issue. In 

addition, the action of which plaintiff complains occurred while 

the defendant was acting in his judicial capacity trying the 

plaintiff in a criminal case in the district court of Sedgwick 

County, Kansas. Thus the judge has absolute judicial immunity. 

Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978). 

The motion for leave to proceed on appeal without prepayment 

of costs or fees is denied. 

It is further ordered as follows: 

1. The filing fee is waived; 

2 . The appeal is dismissed because no rational argument can 

be made; and 

3. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

Appellate Case: 90-3004 Document: 01019565805 Date Filed: 07/31/1990 Page: 2