Raso v. Wall

How courts have described this case

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• holding that laches “may, in appropriate circumstances, be properly invoked by the state as an affirmative defense to an applicant’s application for postconviction relief’ where applicable statute permitted petitions filed “at any time”
• stating that laches inquiry is flexible and any \determination must be made in light of the circumstances of the particular case\
• stating that laches inquiry is flexible and any “determination must be made in light of the circumstances of the particular case”
• applying common-law doctrine of laches to applications for post-conviction relief and permitting consideration of State's ability to retry the case
• construing statutory language providing that an application for postconviction relief \may be filed at any time\ as meaning that such an application may be filed \at any reasonable time.\
• construing the term “at any time” in a statute as meaning at any reasonable time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).