Dobbs v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Dennis Dobbs submitted various filings to the Marshall County Circuit Court, which treated these filings as a motion for post-conviction relief. The circuit court denied relief, and Dobbs appealed, asserting his motions were not post-conviction motions but rather civil complaints under Title 42 of the United States Code Section 1983 (2006). The Court of Appeals affirmed, and we granted certiorari to address the issue of whether the Marshall County Circuit Court had jurisdiction to consider a motion for post-conviction relief…