Walter Byard Martin v. Post Falls Police Department, Kootenai County, Aaron Monthe, Jessica Lawrance, Christopher Bonner, Eric Mork, Daniel Mork, Norman Victor Allis, Mike Normans, and Kathy Doe

── Walter Byard Martin v. Post Falls Police Department, Kootenai County, Aaron Monthe, Jessica Lawrance, Christopher Bonner, Eric Mork, Daniel Mork, Norman Victor Allis, Mike Normans, and Kathy Doe ── Court: Idaho Court of Appeals Date: May 05, 2026 Category: General IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO Docket No. 53146 WALTER BYARD MARTIN, ) ) Filed: May 5, 2026 Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ) Melanie Gagnepain, Clerk v. ) ) THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED POST FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT, ) OPINION AND SHALL NOT KOOTENAI COUNTY, AARON ) BE CITED AS AUTHORITY MONTHE, JESSICA LAWRANCE, ) CHRISTOPHER BONNER, ERIC ) MORK, DANIEL MORK, NORMAN ) VICTOR ALLIS, MIKE NORMANS, ) and KATHY DOE, ) ) Defendants. ) ) Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, State of Idaho, Kootenai County. Hon. John A. Cafferty, District Judge. Judgment dismissing complaint, affirmed. Walter Byard Martin, Boise, pro se appellant. ________________________________________________ HUSKEY, Judge Walter Byard Martin appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing his complaint. Martin argues that the district court abused its discretion in dismissing his complaint for failure to properly serve the opposing parties. We hold that because Martin fails to provide any cogent argument supported by citation to authority or the record challenging the dismissal of his complaint, he has waived all issues on appeal. The judgment dismissing Martin’s complaint is affirmed. I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Martin filed a complaint against the Post Falls Police Department, Kootenai County, and several other named defendants on September 9, 2021. Attached to the complaint was an affidavit. 1 In the affidavit, Martin asserted the following causes of action: “tort, tort claim’s act, torterference, tort toxic, unreasonable search and seizure, white collar crime/willful intentional, willful tort claims against Post Fall’s Police Department, in assisting in crimes committed against Walter Byard Martin.” (Errors in original.) The affidavit goes on to list several other causes: “theft of property, ID theft, fraud, forgery, burglary, false testimony . . . defamation, obstruction, nuisance, personal injury, breach of warranty, breach of contract, professional malpractice/negligence, media damages, public view. Trade secrets, trade name, trademark search, trademark owner, trademark registration, copyrights, unfair competition.” The affidavit contains no facts but instead states, “as facts will prove” and “we have every right to bring suit.” On June 10, 2022, the district court entered an order dismissing Martin’s complaint for failure to properly serve the summonses in a timely manner. No appeal was taken from this dismissal. On May 18, 2023, in the same case, Martin filed a petition for post-conviction relief, but the claims were general civil claims rather than claims regarding an underlying criminal case. Martin then filed a variety of documents, including handwritten summonses he mailed to various parties, various affidavits of service he believed he accomplished, and an affidavit of “negligent tort claim.” Some of these documents were submitted to replace “lost” documents that apparently related to Martin’s previously dismissed complaint. Martin also filed various requests for a default judgment. On March 13, 2025, Martin filed a prisoner civil rights complaint against the State of Idaho and then-director of the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC), Josh Tewalt. The complaint alleged that Martin properly served the Kootenai County district attorney’s office. Martin claimed his complaint was governed by the Un