Opinion ID: 2134620
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: ISSUES II, III, and IV

Text: Defendant separately claims that the admission of the defendant's statement upon arrest, and his subsequent taped confession, where no objection was made, and the failure to grant a change of venue, even though not requested, each constitute fundamental error so grave as to deny defendant's due process rights to receive a fair and impartial trial. In reviewing a contention of fundamental error, it is not enough to merely urge that a constitutional right is implicated. Defendant must also demonstrate that, had a proper objection been made, the trial court would have had no choice but to sustain the objection. McAfee v. State (1984), Ind., 459 N.E.2d 1186; Beard v. State (1981), Ind., 428 N.E.2d 772. As already discussed in Issue I, the record is silent as to facts which would show that the trial court would have necessarily sustained one of the objections or granted the change of venue. Fundamental error has thus not been shown on these issues.