NESTELL v. STATE

No. A07-2215.

758 N.W.2d 610 (2008)

Chawtell Lamont NESTELL, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

December 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Hammerling, Chief Appellate Public Defender, Bradford S. Delapena, Special Assistant Public Defender, St. Paul, MN, for appellant.

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Susan E. Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney, Mark Nathan Lystig, Assistant County Attorney, St. Paul, MN, for respondent.

Considered and decided by JOHNSON, Presiding Judge; ROSS, Judge; and LARKIN, Judge.


OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide whether pleading requirements must be met to trigger the exceptions to the primary statute-of-limitations deadline for postconviction petitions for relief. Chawtell Nestell seeks postconviction relief from a sentence of 360 months' imprisonment for unintentional second-degree murder, a conviction he did not directly appeal. His attorney mailed his postconviction...

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