Lawton v. Tavares, 95-0238 (2001)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that petitioner’s amended ineffective-assistance claim that counsel wrongly failed to request another competency evaluation did not relate back to the original ineffective- assistance claim that counsel failed “to investigate and raise a defense.”
• “But we must take care to only apply the equitable tolling doctrine ‘sparingly.’”
• “But we must take care to only apply the equitable tolling doctrine ‘sparingly.’”
• “But we must take care to only apply the equitable tolling doctrine ‘sparingly.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).