Lane Francis Weitzel v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

JOHNSON, Judge.

In 2007, Lane Francis Weitzel pleaded guilty to one count of failure to register as a predatory offender. In 2014, he filed a petition for postconviction relief in which he seeks to withdraw his guilty plea on the ground that it is inaccurate because it lacks an adequate factual basis. In its answer to the petition, the state opposed postconviction relief on the merits, without addressing whether the petition is timely. The postconviction court nonetheless denied the petition on the grounds that it is untimely and that Weitzel did not satisfy the interests-of-justice…