Opinion ID: 2245258
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Text: The prosecutor failed to comply with a pretrial discovery order in failing to list a Dr. Van Beek upon the State's list of witnesses supplied to the defendant. Defendant was not informed of this witness until January 27, 1975, the day before the trial, whereas by the court's discovery order, such information should have been furnished by January the 13th. The defendant contends that he should have been discharged because of the State's failure to comply with the order or, in the alternative, that Dr. Van Beek should not have been permitted to testify. The sanctions for failure to comply with a discovery order are discretionary, not mandatory. Indiana Rules of Trial Procedure 37. There is no indication that the failure to list this witness was an act of bad faith or deliberate suppression which would warrant a discharge. Moore v. Illinois, (1972) 408 U.S. 786, 92 S.Ct. 2562, 33 L.Ed.2d 706; Evans v. Janing, (8th Cir.1973) 489 F.2d 470. Nor has the defendant shown that he was harmed by the judge's ruling upon this matter. The usual, but not sole, remedy in cases of this nature is a motion for a continuance. Luckett v. State, (1972) 259 Ind. 174, 284 N.E.2d 738; Johns v. State, (1968) 251 Ind. 172, 240 N.E.2d 60. There was no motion for continuance made in this case.