Court Opinion

ID: 9854760
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:13:41.178518+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:21.397346
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ROBERT H. SCHUMACHER, Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. The district court was correct in determining that appellant’s second petition for postconviction relief is procedurally barred. Appellant relies upon an unpublished case on due process decided by this court after his first appeal to argue that the due-process claim he now raises is novel. See State v. Amos, No. CX-03-42, 2003 WL 22040016 (Minn.App. Sept. 2, 2003). But at the time of his first petition, appellant was aware of all the facts that would have permitted him to raise a due-process claim: his felony conviction and the contents of his discharge order. The cases regarding due process on which this court relied in Amos were all decided before appellant’s first petition. The arguments appellant now makes “had a reasonable basis in the law at the time of his appeal” and are not so novel or significant as to require review now. Ademodi v. State, 616 N.W.2d 716, 719 (Minn.2000).
Additionally, the district court concluded appellant did not rely on the order discharging him from probation. Although appellant had the opportunity when he pleaded guilty and again when he first appealed his conviction, he made no claim of reliance on the discharge order. The first time appellant made any claim that he relied on the discharge order was in his brief to this court on this second appeal. Because appellant’s guilty plea was accurate, voluntary, and intelligent, and he has already had an appeal, I would affirm.