LIMITATION ON TIME TO FILE
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In Re Smith (2011)
Most recently applied in Ex parte Springsteen (December 2016)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A person seeking compensation under this chapter must file an application with the comptroller for compensation under Subchapter B not later than the third anniversary of the date:
(1) the person on whose imprisonment the claim is based received a pardon as provided by Section 103.001(a)(2)(A);
(2) the person's application for a writ of habeas corpus was granted as provided by Section 103.001(a)(2)(B); or
(3) an order of dismissal described by Section 103.001(a)(2)(C) was signed.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.