Mario Sims v. Pete Buttigieg, et al.

── Mario Sims v. Pete Buttigieg, et al. ── Case No.: 20A-CT-02390 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: April 14, 2021 Author: Judge Cale Bradford County of Origin: Marshall Category: Civil Decision: Affirmed in Part, Reversed in Part Judge Vaidik and Judge Brown concur This legal proceeding, like many others before it, is based on Sims’s contention that the 1995 convictions were the result of a wide-ranging, long-term conspiracy involving several public officials. By October of 2003, Sims had prosecuted at least forty-seven state court appeals, both civil and criminal, related to those convictions. Sims v. Bramer, 827 N.E.2d 1187, 1188 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005), trans. denied. As a result of what we concluded to be Sims’s “abuse of the judicial system[,]” Sims v. Scopelitis, 797 N.E.2d 348, 352 (Ind. Ct.