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Veal v. State

Citations

  • 779 N.W.2d 63
  • 2010 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 13
  • 2010 WL 668761

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding “the time restrictions that apply in ordinary postconviction relief actions do not apply in illegal sentence challenges”
  • holding a claim under Iowa Code section 822.3 was legal in nature and reviewed for errors at law
  • allowing an applicant to challenge her sentence as an illegal sentence based on cruel and unusual punishment in a postconviction relief action
  • finding the three-year statute of limitations for postconviction relief actions does not apply when a defendant challenges a sentence as illegal in a PCR application
  • finding the three-year statute of limitations on PCR actions does not apply to a claim the sentence is illegal
  • agreeing with State’s concession that if the postconviction claim were regarded as a challenge to an illegal sentence, the time restrictions in Iowa Code section 822.3 would not apply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Appel, Baker

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