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Tyson v. State
543 N.E.2d 415
Ind. Ct. App.
1989
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*1 intelligent view to treat- psychiatrist with a purposes . frustrate the it would Whether physician- not waived the of ment. C.P. had deny admission code juvenile Therefore, in- privilege. irrelevant patient is an medical records C.P.'s privilege is of physician-patient quiry. The admitting, objections, over C.P.'s erred section of the than the Brown and the medi- higher testimony order of Mr. majori- cited prepared by Indiana Juvenile Code him. records cal ty physician-patient did not waive C.P. signed Although mother

privilege.1 C.P.'s consenting to the disclosure

a form Brown, by Mr. prepared records

medical im may not be authorization

the mother's privilege so as to waive

puted C.P. Mr. communications protecting C.P.'s TYSON, Ray Appellant Kenneth Brown. (Defendant Below), juvenile of a valid waiver ingredients 31-6-7-3 in IND.CODE are identified § v. Ed.). provides perti- (1988 That statute Indiana, Appellee STATE Below). part: nent (Plaintiff child rights guaranteed to the "(a) Any No.41A04-8904-CR-122. of the United the Constitution Indiana, Indiana, States, Appeals or the Constitution Court of any other (2) by [*] [*] child's custodial law may [*] be waived i [*] parent, guard- [*] only: # Fourth District. Sept. custodian, if: ian, guardian ad litem knowingly voluntar-

(A) person that right;

ily waives the

(B) no interest adverse person that has child;

(C) meaningful consultation has occurred child; person and the

between

(D) knowingly voluntarily child the waiver."

joins with (a)(2). mother exe- In the instant C.P.'s to Disclose Confidential

cuted "Consent petition alleging delin-

Information" and a The mother's on the same date.

quency time she consented to disclo-

interest at the Thus the clearly adverse to C.P.

sure was did signed by C.P.'s mother

consent form physician-pa- operate as a waiver of

not privilege asserted C.P.

tient summarize, priv- physician-patient

To Brown, party to Mr. a third

ilege extended to facili- essential

whose intervention was C.P. and communication between

tate issue, Mr. Brown. privilege not extend to did majority not reach 'the waiver 1. The did concluding physician-patient instead that the *2 sets,

such as a stereo and television were laying in yard approximately five feet back of the Chevette. Elkins parked spoke next to the Chevette and Kimberly Gregory (Gregory), the woman inside. When asked if anyone she had seen home, enter the Gregory Elkins's answered no, explained then sitting she was in front particular house to look for a street. Tyson, knowing, without Elkins slipped into Gregory the Chevette and away. drove pulled away, As it Elkins noted the car's plate license number. Later when Elkins home, entered her she found the front door broken in and her house ransacked. tracing After plate Chevette's license Gregory, police number to connected Tyson Tyson to the crime. charged by burglary information with and theft. A by jury convened, but was later mistrial, deemed a Tyson's over objection. A convened, second trial was then after Tyson which was convicted of both counts. He was sentenced to consecutive terms twenty years. Tyson four appeals. now Wilson, John P. Limeberry Wilson & Tan- Greenwood, dy, appellant. for Additional facts necessary appear as be- low. Pearson, Linley Gen., Atty. E. Arthur Tyson Perry, Deputy Gen., Atty.

Thaddeus jeopardy contends Office during attached Gen., Atty. Indianapolis, appellee. for trial, the first thus the initiation of the second trial constituted jeopardy. He therefore CONOVER, claims the Judge. trial court erred granting the State's motion for a mistrial Defendant-Appellant Tyson Kenneth denying his motions for discharge (Tyson) appeals his conviction burglary, for or a directed verdict and dismissal. theft, felony, a class B D class felo- fully To Tyson's understand argument, ny. 35-48-2-1, IND.CODE 85-48-4-2. procedural posture of the case must be We reverse. recounted. At the first Tyson presents seven issues for our re- convened and five witnesses testified for reverse, view. Because we we address prosecution. Gregory, the sixth wit- the issue of whether a ness, appear pursuant witness's failure to at trial consti- subpoena issued Tyson State. necessity" tuted a declaring "manifest discharge moved for verdict, or directed a mistrial in Tyson's the face of double which motion was denied. The State ob- jeopardy claim on retrial. tained continuances order to Greg- locate January, (Elkins) however, Susan ory; her, unable locate Elkins driving home with her two children at State moved for a which was approximately p.m. 6:80 they ap- granted As Tyson's objection. over The cause home, proached Elkins noticed a Chevette was re-set for trial on subsequent date. lights parked with no on in front of her At the commencement of the second house, house. As she Tyson neared the she no- moved the discharge court for based ticed family's several of her possessions, on double which the court denied. (vi) verdict, agree on a unable to and after the was convened testified, juror dire Tyson's mo- of a on voir false statements for the State witness the con- denied. At for dismissal was fair trial. prevented tion case-in-chief, Tyson clusion of State's (b) prosecuting authority If evidence, which judgment on moved brought any of the cireumstances about Tyson presented his de- denied. was also (a)(2)(i) (a)(2)(vi) through in subdivisions fense, guilty ver- then the returned section, ter- this with intent to cause *3 counts. dicts on both prosecution another mination of the the deci- be noted at the outset It should is barred. is within the trial to declare a mistrial sion recognition cod This is a and statute sound discretion. v. State court's White against prohibition of double ification Ind., 132, (1984), 135. Such a 460 N.E.2d in provided the Fifth Amend jeopardy an be reversed when decision will 1, ment to the States Constitution United Id. of discretion is demonstrated. abuse through the applicable made to the states review, paid great must be Upon deference I, Amendment, and Article See Fourteenth decision. to the trial court's of the Constitution of the tion Fourteen Tyson's argument apparent It is of Indiana.2 State question manifest the central is whether rule, general jeopardy at As a required jury's discharge impaneled jury when the is and taches permit Tyson's second trial for the so as to (1984),Ind.App., Phillippe v. State sworn. provides: 85-41-4-8 same offense. I.C. 1159, 1160; v. 458 N.E.2d Crim State (a) if prosecution A is barred Sec. 8. 66, 822, (1973), Ind.App. 156 prosecution a former there was Further, in crimi a defendant when the same facts and defendant based on brought prosecution is to and nal of the same offense and for commission if; objection, his cause is dismissed over he equivalent acquittal to an same is (1) prosecution resulted in the former again and cannot put jeopardy has been in acquittal of the de- or a conviction put jeopardy in for the same offense. be or fendant ... 92, (1951), 230 Ind. 102 v. Maddox (2) termi- prosecution the former was 225, on the 228. This is based N.E.2d impaneled and nated after the permitted to the state should not be belief or, in the court a trial with- sworn to undue em subject a criminal defendant first witness was jury, out a after the barrassment, by re expense, and ordeal sworn, (i) con- unless him of an attempting to convict peatedly waived, by to sented the termination 1161, Phillippe, supra, at alleged offense. otherwise, to dismiss or motion (1971), 400 citing v. United States Jorn termination, (ii) right object to the it to 547, A 27 L.Ed.2d 543. 91 S.Ct. U.S. impossible proceed physically to right to have defendant has a valued law, conformity with the trial in with particular tribunal. completed by a (iii) legal defect there was (1978), 434 U.S. Washington v. Arizona any judg- proceedings that make would 717. How 54 LEd.2d 98 S.Ct. reversible upon ment entered a verdict circumstances, ever, a de in some limited law, (iv) prejudicial of con- as a matter rights must be subordinated fendant's courtroom, duct, in made or outside just interest in fair trials public's proceed impossible v. States judgments. Downum United defen- injustice to either the without 83 S.Ct. state, (v) or the dant I, Section of the Constitution 2. Article Amendment to the Constitution 1. The Fifth provides: State of Indiana provides part: the United States jeopardy person put in twice for shall be No subject any person Nor shall any person, criminal No the same offense. jeopardy put to be twice same offense | testify compelled prosecution, shall be life or limb ... against himself. 100; Phillippe, LEd.2d supra, at 1161. 91 Downum, LEd.2d Thus, retrials are not always barred by the supra. As explained the Court in Arizona jeopardy double clause. Id. at 1163. Washington, v. the term "manifest necessity" given cannot be a literal inter Those cases where is not pretation. Rather, the court must assume applied fall into one of groups, several varying there are degrees of necessity and 1) waiver, 2) namely consent, 3) technical "high degree" is required before a mis defect, 4) Here, manifest necessity. trial is declared. Id. at the trial court based its decision on the "manifest absconding wit- Looking cases, to related in Downum v. ness, emergency caused her ab- States, United after a sence, the fact the State had taken all selected and sworn request- steps reasonable procure ... her attend- ed discharged because key ance and the best interests of public present. witness was not and the community." (R. 114). witness had not been served with a sum- mons and no arrangements other had been *4 The rule of necessity manifest was first made to assure presence. his The trial announced in United States v. Perez judge granted the over the defen- (1824), (9 Wheat.) 22 579, U.S. 6 L.Ed. 165. objection. Later, dant's jury after a second Perez, In judge the trial discharged the impaneled, pled the defendant former jury, without the consent of the defendant jeopardy, plea which government, or the was overruled. The jury because the mem- defendant was by convicted the second bers were agree. unable to response In jury. appeal, On the United States Su- the defendant's jeopardy claim, double the preme Court held the second subjected United States Supreme Court stated: the defendant to double jeopardy. In its think, ... We in all cases of this discussion, the Supreme Court stated: nature, the law has invested Courts of Harassment of an accused justice successive with the authority discharge a prosecutions or declaration of a jury mistrial giving any whenever, verdict so as to afford prosecution the in a more opinion, their taking all the circum- favorable opportunity to convict are ex- stances consideration, into there is a amples of when jeopardy attaches. necessity manifest act, for or the Id., public justice ends of 372 U.S. at would otherwise 83 S.Ct. at 1034. The defeated. They are to exercise a sound Court prohibition noted the against double discretion on the subject sure, ... To against is not being pun twice power ought ished, be used with against but being put jeopar twice in greatest caution, urgent dy. circum- Id. The Court concluded stating stances, and very plain for and any obvious doubt should be in resolved favor of causes; ... liberty, citizen's rather than the court's unlimited, exercise of an uncertain, Id. Perez and created the test for determining arbitrary judicial Id., whether an 372 U.S. initial mistrial followed a discretion. second trial constitutes a violation of the prohibition against jeopardy. In Cornero v. (1931), United States 48 (1979), Brown v. State (C.A. F.2d 74 181 Ind.App. Cir.) A.L.R. (cited 797 9th approval Perez, 1068. Since Downum, ), supra a trial United Supreme States Court has consist was first continued because ently employed the manifest test. present and, witnesses were not when the Just as consistently, the Supreme witnesses when the case Court has refused to formulate a mechani again called, jury discharged. cal test applied to be to all circumstances. The court held the mere absence of wit Id. See Arizona v. Washington, supra; nesses, discovered after the impan is (1978), Illinois v. Somerville 458, eled, 410 U.S. is deprive insufficient to the accused 1066, 1069, 93 35 LEd.2d of right to claim double jeopardy upon a United States v. Jorn subsequent trial where the jury is dis N.E.2d 125. How Ind.App. consent the defendant's charged without ever, approving a claim of find no cases we objection. Id. at notwithstanding his prosecution wit necessity when a manifest attor the district The court reasoned Maddox, In appear at trial. fails to impaneled the ness he a chance" when ney "took however, Supreme noted our Court presence ascertaining the jury without discharging of a based disapproval its court stated the the witnesses. prosecution witness.3 of a attorney simply on absence indicated the district facts The court said: sufficient upon the trial without entered and, If, in this under the cireumstances ... to convict evidence setting, jeopardy attaches. such a such a could be affirmed that factual discharge Id. at 71. legal consent is shown appellant's without cases, has Supreme Court many arisen, easy then it would be to have declaration of a condemned the explicitly attorney, in the prosecuting matter for a assisting the purpose mistrial ne- to create a midst of a criminal second, obtaining conviction discharge on cessity for the In Arizona v. trial. more successful ground that the state's evidence judge grant Washington, stronger weak, made on but could be mistrial after motion for a ed the State's of his witness- another or that some comments prejudicial made defense counsel absent, etc., for these rea- es were In discuss during opening statement. discharge jury, sons secure discharging jury, propriety of ing the place party the accused subsequently the declaration of a Supreme stated Court If such for the same offense. upon trial requires high degree of necessi mistrial sustained, then it *5 procedure could be The 98 S.Ct. at 831. Court ty. Id. at truthfully said that the consti- might be scrutiny strictest point to out the went on question empty is as provision in tutional the the basis for applied must when be bubble, protecting and of no avail as a pros critical unavailability the mistrial is being person against twice an accused prosecutor the evidence or when ecution offense. jeopardy for the same put in using resources to appears to State Id., at 229-230. 102 N.E.2d advantage the ac a tactical over achieve Thus, progeny, cused. Id. at the trial" and its Under Perez jeop prohibition against double discharged follows the the erroneously prosecutor the ardy unquestionably forbids trial appear to Gregory failed when using proceedings as a necessity to was no manifest because there Gregory's presence would Id., at 832 do so. While his case. at S.Ct. run of Similarly, question in Gori v. United States n. 24. the State's have aided presence her would is not whether here judge stated a trial prosecution. the Court L.Ed.2d to the have beneficial been when he exercises his discretion her absence cre- abuses is whether question The prosecution. At a authority help warranting to a mis- necessity ated a manifest pro case is prosecution's trial where trial. judge ceeding badly, the trial abuses case was It cannot said the State's another, affording the State discretion Gregory totally of evidence because devoid opportunity to convict more favorable tes- Five other witnesses appear. to failed at 1526 at 81 S.Ct. accused. . Cornero, proferred As tified. have ascertained should manifest ne recognizes Indiana Gregory before at whereabouts Phillippe, supra, cessity doctrine. See merely afforded The mistrial (1983),Ind.App., sworn. v. State Whitehead 1254; Crim, second, opportu- supra, 294 more favorable a the record Tyson. Because (1973), nity to convict 829; Mooberry v. State N.E.2d to witness failed incompetent, not because a Maddox, judge discharged the trial In court. juror discovered to be a because A420

does not demonstrate a manifest Kimberly Gregory was the witness the trial court who saw the defendant at the scene of the granting a regard. its discretion in Ty- abused that crime; son's in the second trial was Kimberly Gregory gold found a chain consequently jeopar- barred the double that had been stolen in burglary dy of our state and clauses federal consti- the seat where the defendant had been

tutions. sitting car; in her Reversed. Kimberly Gregory ongoing had an

friendship defendant, and; with the SULLIVAN, J., concurs. friendship Her ap- peared to be the reason she ap- CHEZEM, P.J., opinion. dissents with pear testify and avoided the law enforce- ment officers attempting to find her. CHEZEM, Presiding Judge, dissenting. support There is evidence to I respectfully dissent. particular this finding court's reweigh and we should not case, it would have been more than a minor the evidence importance to redetermine the disadvantage State, to the to have been of Kimberly Gregory's testimony. required proceed with the first To hold that a mistrial called under the the face of the deliberate refusal of Kim- facts of subjects this case the defendant to berly Gregory obey properly served double jeopardy upon puts retrial an unfair subpoena. burden on the Kimberly State. Gregory's majority correctly states the law as testimony provided would have impor- and that a manifest tant, perhaps, only linking of the defen- necessity may However, allow a retrial. dant to the crime. the trial court found that the "manifest The result in this case allows friend or absconding witness, accomplice to trade off ninety day sen- emergency absence, caused her the fact tence and five hundred dollar fine for a the State had taken all reasonable defendant's freedom from lengthy sen- steps procure ...to her attendance and the tence. A may defendant encourage well public best interest of the and the commu- procure the absence of a State's witness nity" required *6 granting of the mistrial. knowing that the will have to following support facts proceed with the present trial unable to court's determination that it should declare important complete evidence. mistrial the defendant's first trial: Kimberly Gregory had properly been

served subpoena; with a

Kimberly Gregory drove the vehicle in

which the defendant left the scene of the

crime;

Case Details

Case Name: Tyson v. State
Court Name: Indiana Court of Appeals
Date Published: Sep 14, 1989
Citation: 543 N.E.2d 415
Docket Number: 41A04-8904-CR-122
Court Abbreviation: Ind. Ct. App.
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