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Wilkins v. State

Citations

  • 522 N.W.2d 822
  • 1994 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 221
  • 1994 WL 575853

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding claims of ineffective assistance are not an exception to the time limit of section 822.3
  • stating that, in essence, this exception allows the court to consider “untimely filed applications if they are based on claims that ‘could not’ have been previously raised because they were unavailable”
  • holding ineffective assistance is not a new ground of fact or law
  • noting exception is limited to “a ground that the applicant was at least not alerted to in some way”
  • rejecting applicant’s attempt to label his claim an ineffective-assistance-of- counsel claim “in the hope that the court will reach the merits”
  • rejecting 4 applicant’s attempt to label his claim an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel “in the hope that the court will reach the merits”

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Judges: McGiverin, Lavorato, Neuman, Andreasen, Ternus

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