Brian K. Allison v. State of iowa

WATERMAN, Justice (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent and would affirm the decision of the court of appeals and judgment of the district court that correctly dismissed Brian Allison's untimely second petition for postconviction relief (PCR) challenging his convictions for sexually abusing his young stepdaughter. This case presents a question of statutory interpretation of Iowa Code section 822.3 (2015)-whether ineffective assistance of PCR counsel falls within an exception to the three-year statute of limitations. We correctly answered "no" to that question over two decades ago in Dible v.…