Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Brown v. Bradley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided March 6, 2003No. 01-3324-WPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAnn Walsh Bradley, J.
¶ 1. The Petitioner, Norman O. Brown, seeks reinstatement of his petition for review which was previously dismissed as untimely filed.1 Brown contends that this court should apply retroactively the tolling rule for pro se prisoners that it adopted in State ex rel. Nichols v. Litscher, 2001 WI 119, 247 Wis. 2d 1013, 635 N.W.2d 292, and deem his petition for review "timely."
¶ 2. We now conclude that the tolling rule we adopted in Nichols is a civil procedural rule with limited *633retroactive application. It applies retroactively to cases on direct review or not yet final when Nichols was decided…
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- State v. KochWisconsin Supreme Court · 1993
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