Maulding v. State

In the motion before us petitioner Harless Dale Maulding asks this court to allow him to file a forty-page petition pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37. This court adopted a ten-page limitation on such petitions on June 5, 1989. Petitioner argues that it is a denial of due process of law to limit him to a ten-page petition when no such limitation existed at the time he was convicted of rape, kidnapping and burglary in 1986. We conclude that this court may place reasonable limitations on the form of pleadings before it and deny the motion.

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