Court Opinion

ID: 9716176
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:29:44.589138+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:42.623371
License: Public Domain

SHIELDS, Judge,
concurring.
I fully concur in Judge Sullivan's opinion. Nevertheless, I use the vehicle of a separate concurring opinion to express, for posterity's sake, my concern about the confusion between the denial of a petition under Indiana Rule of Post-Conviction Relief, Rule 1 § 4(e) and the dismissal of a petition under Indiana Rule of Trial Procedure 41(E). The former is a judgment against the petitioner on the basis the "pleadings conclusively show that petitioner is entitled to no relief...." P.C.R. 4(e). The latter is a dismissal of the petitioner's petition on the ground he has failed "to comply with these rules or when no action has been taken in a civil case for a period of sixty [60] days...." TR. 41(B). Holliness v. State (1986), Ind., 496 N.E.2d 1281 fails to recognize the distinction in a P.C.R. 4(e) judgment and a T.R. 41(E) dismissal when it requires the issuance of a T.R. 41(E) rule to show cause why he petition should not be dismissed for want of prosecution before the post-conviction relief court enters a P.C.R. 4(e) ruling on the issue of whether the pleadings show petitioner is not entitled to relief.