Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 state decisions

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1. “The second judicially created exception to [the filing deadlines in] Rule 29.15 occurs, “in very rare circumstances ... [in which] our courts have found an improper Ming, caused by circumstances beyond the control of the mov-ant, justified a late receipt of the motion by the proper court.’ ” McFadden, 256 S.W.3d at 108 ; see Nicholson, 151 S.W.3d at 371 (motion that was timely filed in the improper venue must be transferred to the proper venue as if it were filed there originally); Spells, 213 S.W.3d at 701-02 (a motion was timely where the movant sent it to the court’s previous address and the post office received it before the deadline for filing a Rule 29.15 motion). There were no rare circumstances in this case that justify Moore’s failure to prepare and send the original motion before the expiration of 90 days.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Price v. State

2. “a motion to file an untimely post-conviction relief motion” based on abandonment. . The time limits in Rule 29.15 amount to restrictions on ''authority,” not”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State