MULLIN v. STATE

No. A-7053.

996 P.2d 737 (2000)

Thomas G. MULLIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

February 18, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret R. Simonian and Leslie A. Hiebert, Assistant Public Advocates, and Brant G. McGee, Public Advocate, Anchorage, for Appellant.

Nancy R. Simel, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Alaska has enacted a statute of limitations governing petitions for post-conviction relief.1 For Thomas G. Mullin (a prisoner serving a 40-year sentence for sexual abuse of minors), the filing deadline was July 1, 1996.

Mullin filed his petition for post-conviction relief on June 28, 1996 — three days before the deadline — but the...

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