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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 18:24:13+00:00

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Hickingbottom is an inmate at the Miami Correctional Facility (“the Facility”).
receive a booklet called the Miami Correctional Facility Rules and Regulations.
grievance procedure after you have done as you have been instructed.” Tr. Vol.
1 See Ind. Code § 35-42-2-1(c)(1), (g)(5)(A).
entitled to a special dietary meal have a special card to identify that distinction.
Id. at 114-15. Inmates may not have another inmate’s ID card with them. Id.
chemical agents, a radio, and a first aid kit, but they do not carry firearms. Id.
hall and standing between the windows through which the food was served. Id.
ID card, looked at it, and put it in his pocket. Id. at 163, 226-27.
and told Hickingbottom at least three times to step back. Id. at 163, 227.
officer, and Officer Fleenor shoved him away. Tr. Vol. III at 164-65, 227-28; Tr.
had abrasions to his head and arms. Id. at 166, 177, 202; State’s Exs. 6-11.
2 One of Hickingbottom’s witnesses testified that, when a white man uses the word “boy” toward a black man, it is used to “belittle” or to try “to bring [him] down.” Tr. Vol. IV at 29-30.
that the DOC officer initiated the physical contact. Id.
a motion to dismiss and a motion to continue trial due to discovery issues.
grievances against the witnesses. Id. at 54. The trial court denied both motions.
information existed. Id. at 107-08.
manual given to the DOC officers that explained procedures did not exist. Id.
examine Williams regarding the training of DOC officers. Id. at 169-70.
mere presence of DOC officers to various kinds of physical force. Id. at 118-21.
Q: Are there or is there a rulebook on how you should train other [DOC] officers?
A: Can you define what you mean by “rulebook”?
Q: A rulebook explaining the techniques or what’s to be done during a tragic [sic] situation?
A: Our training is governed by departmental policies and procedures. The division of staff training issues approved lesson plans that we use to train with.
Q: Does the rulebook also explain how [DOC] officers should conduct themselves?
A: Yes, there is information there about being -- acting in a professional manner.
when they misbehave. Id. at 220.
felony battery resulting in bodily injury to a public safety officer.
App. Vol. III at 61-64. The trial court denied all of these motions.
decision. Id. (citing James v. State, 613 N.E.2d 15, 22 (Ind. 1993)).
defense and was being denied a fair trial. Id. at 128, 131.
The use of physical force by Correctional Police Officers shall be in compliance with the use of force continuum in the administrative procedure for Policy 02-01-109, “The Use of Physical Force,” . . . . Correctional Police Officers shall only use that amount of physical force necessary to control the situation and ensure the safety and security of all persons involved.
3 Pursuant to Indiana Evidence Rule 201(c)(2), “the court must take judicial notice if a party requests it and the court is supplied with the necessary information. In his appellate brief, Hickingbottom specifically requests that we take judicial notice of the manual appearing on the DOC website.
4 Although the State argues that the manual that appears on the DOC website was not available online at the time of Hickingbottom’s trial because it was not issued until July 2018, we note that within the manual, the pertinent parts contain an effective date of September 1, 2013, which establishes that the manual was available at the time of Hickingbottom’s trial, which began on January 31, 2018.
Ind. Code § 35-41-3-2(i), (j).
Fleenor under Indiana Code section 35-41-3-2(i).
defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.’” Williams v.
State, 714 N.E.2d 644, 649 (Ind. 1999) (quoting United State v. Bagley, 473 U.S.
is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.’” Id.
the defendant before or during the course of a trial, Brady is not implicated. Id.
perception, and truthfulness.’” Berkman v. State, 976 N.E.2d 68, 77 (Ind. Ct.
App. 2012) (quoting State v. Owings, 622 N.E.2d 948, 950 (Ind. 1993)), trans.
denied, cert. denied, 571 U.S. 863 (2013).
State so that Hickingbottom has the ability to review and utilize it.

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