Dible v. State

TERNUS, Justice.

Appellant, William S. Dible, filed a post-conviction relief action that was dismissed for failure to prosecute. He then brought this second posteonviction relief action which was filed more than three years from the date his underlying criminal convictions became final. To avoid the three-year statute of limitations of Iowa Code section 822.3, he alleged the ineffectiveness of his first posteonviction relief counsel was a “ground of fact or law that could not have been raised within the applicable time period.” See Iowa Code § 822.3 (1995). The district court rejected this…