Sayas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “a letter to a trial court from a defendant can be treated as some type of motion or application for post-conviction relief”
• “Nothing in the Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act requires the petitioner to obtain the records from his underlying criminal case as a prerequisite to filing a petition.”
• “The failure to file a timely petition is a basis for dismissal of the petition.”
• equitable tolling was denied even where the petitioner spoke only Spanish because bilingual aid was available
• “Sayas has offered no cogent argument as to why his petition was filed two and one-half years beyond the statutory time limit.”
• “The failure to file a timely petition is a basis for dismissal of the petition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).