Opinion ID: 591783
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Whether the trial court had jurisdiction.

Text: 9 Record Document 49, Appendix A, at 1. The court rejected all of Collins' arguments. First, based on the summary of the evidence quoted above, the court found that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the conviction. Second, the court affirmed the trial court's limitation of criminal discovery because the information Collins sought was otherwise available, beyond the power of the state to provide, or not material to Collins' case. The court also found that Collins waived any error pertaining to the state's alleged non-compliance with the trial court's discovery order. The court further found that the trial court did not err by failing to issue a subpoena duces tecum for the purpose of taking depositions since a subpoena was unnecessary for that purpose. Third, the court rejected Collins' challenge to the trial court's jurisdiction. Collins had sued the first trial judge presiding over his trial, causing the judge to remove himself from the case and to be replaced by a special judge. The court determined that Collins had waived his objection to the irregularity in the appointment of the special judge. Id. at 2-4. Collins sought transfer to the Indiana Supreme Court, but transfer was denied. 10 Collins then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court. We quote verbatim the grounds for relief Collins raised in this petition: 11 Violation of AMMENDMENT II an IV ... I was seized pursuant to a unlawful warrant by a Judge that didnot have jusidiction, my guns was never return and therefore were seized without a warrant and were used against me in the trial the cause was dismissed on December 6, 1986 and the Sheriff's Department maintain control over my guns seized without a warrant in 1984. 12 Violation of AMMENDMENT V ... I was being held for one class B Misdemeanor's and one class D Felony without a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, sence the casue was dismissed by one Judge and again prosecuted by another that has place me as the defendant in double jeopardy without every being indicted by a grand jury but up on probable cause by the Judge without jurisdiction to hear the cause. 13 Violation of AMMENDMENT VI ... On the 30th of January, 1987 the Court instructed both parties that notheing in the proceedings before would be used in this new cause, I filed a motion requesting the court fix a time at its convenients for the taking of deposition of the listed states witnesses but the Court denied that motion but still allowed the state to used the gunes and all other information it had obtained during the other proceedings. 14 Violation of AMMENDMENT VIII an XIV ... I have now been force to invoke three (3) Ten thousand dollars bonds, concerning the same charges and subject to being striped naked of my personal clothing three (3) times and incarcerated in the Wabash County Jail, if relifed request by the defendant is not granted there will be a fourth time of incarceration, fore I have exhausted all my state remedies fore relief. 15 Record Document 1, at 5-6 (grammatical errors uncorrected). Rejecting all of Collins' claims, some on multiple grounds, the district court dismissed Collins' petition, though [i]n the interest of the greatest caution, it dismissed the petition without prejudice.