Peterson v. State

The Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Appellant’s petition for postconviction relief, holding that Appellant’s petition was not timely and that Appellant’s claims of newly discovered evidence were unsubstantiated.Appellant entered Alford guilty pleas to five felonies and a misdemeanor for a violent assault and kidnapping of a woman he had been dating. Appellant filed the present petition for postconviction relief approximately five years later, asserting that he was effectively coerced into making his Alford pleas and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The district court denied the petition on the merits. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court erred in measuring the deadline for Appellant’s petition for postconviction relief but nevertheless ultimately reached the right result in denying the petition. View "Peterson v. State" on Justia Law