Rosling v. State

2015 MT 351N

• Court: Montana Supreme Court
• Decided: December 29, 2015
• Docket: 15-0339
• Status: Published

Opinion

December 29 2015

DA 15-0339 Case Number: DA 15-0339

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA

2015 MT 351N

JARED ROSLING,

Petitioner and Appellant,

v.

STATE OF MONTANA,

Respondent and Appellee.

APPEAL FROM: District Court of the First Judicial District, In and For the County of Lewis and Clark, Cause No. BDV-2009-445 Honorable Jeffrey M. Sherlock, Presiding Judge

COUNSEL OF RECORD:

For Appellant:

Jared Lee Rosling (self-represented); Deer Lodge, Montana

For Appellee:

Timothy C. Fox, Montana Attorney General, Micheal S. Wellenstein, Assistant Attorney General; Helena, Montana

Leo Gallagher, Lewis and Clark County Attorney; Helena, Montana

Submitted on Briefs: December 16, 2015 Decided: December 29, 2015

Filed:

__________________________________________ Clerk Justice James Jeremiah Shea delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶1 Pursuant to Section I, Paragraph 3(c), Montana Supreme Court Internal Operating

Rules, this case is decided by memorandum opinion and shall not be cited and does not

serve as precedent. Its case title, cause number, and disposition shall be included in this

Court’s quarterly list of noncitable cases published in the Pacific Reporter and Montana

Reports.

¶2 Jared Rosling appeals the order of the First Judicial District Court, Lewis and

Clark County, dismissing with prejudice his second petition for postconviction relief.

Rosling’s convictions and sentences for deliberate homicide, aggravated kidnapping,

aggravated burglary, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and criminal

possession of dangerous drugs were upheld by this Court in State v. Rosling,

2008 MT 62, 342 Mont. 1, 180 P.3d 1102. We affirmed the dismissal of his first petition

for postconviction relief in Rosling v. State, 2012 MT 179, 366 Mont. 50, 285 P.3d 486.

Rosling’s federal habeas corpus petition also was denied in Rosling v. Kirkegard,

2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22498, No. CV 12-161-M-DLC-JCL, at *8-9 (D. Mont. Feb. 21,

2014). Here, we affirm the District Court’s dismissal of Rosling’s second petition for

postconviction relief.

¶3 This Court reviews a district court’s denial of a petition for postconviction relief to

determine whether the district court’s findings of fact are clearly erroneous and whether

its conclusions of law are correct. Marble v. State, 2015 MT 242, ¶ 13, 380 Mont. 366,

355 P.3d 742. A petitioner must raise all grounds for relief in the original or amended

original petition. Section 46-21-105(1)(a), MCA. The petition must “identify all facts

2 supporting the grounds for relief . . . and have attached affidavits . . . or other evidence

establishing the existence of those facts.” Section 46-21-104(1)(c), MCA. A district

court must dismiss a second or subsequent petition that raises grounds that

reasonably could have been raised in the original or amended original petition.

Section 46-21-105(1)(b), MCA.

¶4 Rosling’s second petition fails to comply with our postconviction relief statutes.

Rosling alleges that a material witness has recanted his testimony, but he offers no

affidavit or other substantive evidence in support of this allegation. Rosling’s second

petition, like his first petition, alleges ineffective assistance of his trial counsel for not

testing and presenting at trial a latent palm print taken from the crime scene. Under

§ 46-21-105(1)(b), MCA, Rosling cannot raise this claim again. Finally, Rosling does

not cite any “newly discovered evidence” to satisfy § 46-21-102(2), MCA. The District

Court correctly dismissed Rosling’s petition.

¶5 We have determined to decide this case pursuant to Section I, Paragraph 3(c) of

our Internal Operating Rules, which provides for memorandum opinions. In the opinion

of the Court, the case presents a question controlled by settled law or by the clear

application of applicable standards of review. The District Court’s interpretation and

application of the law were correct, and its findings of fact are not clearly erroneous.

Affirmed.

/S/ JAMES JEREMIAH SHEA

3 We Concur:

/S/ LAURIE McKINNON /S/ MICHAEL E WHEAT /S/ BETH BAKER /S/ JIM RICE