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Parties Involved:
Gary Lee McColpin
Appellant
Clark V. Owens
Appellee

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

United Statn C',urc of Appeals 

Tenth Ci!'cuit 

APR 2 0 1990 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk GARY LEE MCCOLPIN, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

CLARK V. OWENS, 

Defendant-Appellee. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 89-3318 

(D. Kansas) 

(D.C. No. 89-3004-S) 

Before MOORE, BRORBY and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and the appellate record, this 

three-judge panel has determined unanimously that oral argument 

would not be of material assistance in the determination of this 

appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The 

cause is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Appellant, Gary Lee Mccolpin, an inmate in the Kansas State 

Penitentiary filed a prose§ 1983 suit against Clark V. Owens, 

the district attorney in Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Mccolpin alleged 

that Mr. Owens violated Mr. McColpin's rights, privileges and 

immunities by "maliciously communicated to a person orally, in 

writing, or by any other means, false information''; and by "a 

* 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. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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verbal assault on an unwilling plaintiff." The district court 

allowed the filing of this suit in forma pauperis and then 

dismissed the complaint without prejudice finding that "plaintiff 

has made conclusory allegations without sufficient facts to state 

a cause of action under§ 1983." The district court furthermore 

dismissed the action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d). 

Appellant then filed with the district court a "Motion for a 

Rehearing'' wherein he stated: "Plaintiff concur in the opinion of 

the court and add a few words " The district court denied 

this motion and Mr. Mccolpin appealed to this court which 

dismissed the appeal as no rational argument could be made showing 

Mr. Mccolpin could be entitled to relief. 

Mr. McColpin then returned to district court and filed a 

"Motion on Newly Discovered Evidence.'' This motion did not set 

forth any newly discovered evidence nor did the same purport to do 

so. This "Motion'' sets forth various purported laws relating to 

complaints and information, various Kansas statutes relating to 

perjury and complains that Mr. McColpin's conviction of fraud in 

obtaining unemployment benefits should be set aside as the 

information was jurisdictionally defective for failing to allege a 

crime. The district court denied this "Motion on Newly Discovered 

Evidence," Mr. Mccolpin filed his notice of appeal and the 

district court denied leave to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal 

Finding that the appeal is legally frivolous and not taken in good 

faith. 

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Mr. Mccolpin, in his brief to this court asserts that "the 

burden of proving that the issues are frivolous is on the state 

government" and asks that we remand the case and direct the entry 

of appropriate judgment. 

Having considered the record on appeal and having carefully 

considered Mr. McColpin's brief, this court is satisfied that this 

action and this appeal are frivolous. 

This appeal is therefore DISMISSED under and by virtue of 28 

U.S.C. § 1915(d) and the mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court: 

WADE BRORBY 

United States Circuit Judge 

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