Court Opinion

ID: 9774657
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:28:46.913064+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:12.661471
License: Public Domain

BLACKMAR, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I concur, but would respond on the merits to the points contained in the “untimely” amendments, filed by leave of court and disposed on the merits by the trial court. I am persuaded that none of the points has any merit, and that the trial court correctly disposed of them.
I can understand the desire to have the issues fixed in a reasonable time, but can also understand the trial court’s apparent assumption that amendments would be allowed in 29.15 proceedings on the model of amendments in civil actions generally, with the doctrine of relation back.
This opinion and other recent opinions solve the problem for the future, and mov-ants and counsel now know what they must do to avoid procedural default. But the requirements were not so clear when the trial court acted in this case, and so I would place the affirmance on the merits of all issues submitted to and disposed of by the trial court.