Court Opinion

ID: 9666452
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:15:42.5865+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:28.911083
License: Public Domain

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
In his motion for rehearing, Pollard calls attention to the opinions of this Court in Sanders v. State, 807 S.W.2d 493, and Luleff v. State, 807 S.W.2d 495, both handed down concurrently with the opinion herein. Neither of those opinions conflicts with opinion in this case.
In Luleff, as the opinion states: “The record reflects absence of any activity whatsoever by appointed counsel on mov-ant’s behalf at any time during the pro-ceedings_ There is no amended motion.” By the way of contrast, appointed counsel in this case did file an amended motion. Moreover, appointed counsel proceeded to a hearing at which he produced witnesses and cross-examined the State’s witness. It cannot be said that here, as was true in Luleff, appointed counsel abandoned Pollard.
In Sanders, relief was granted on the postconviction motion because appointed counsel had failed to file his amended motion within the time prescribed by Rule 29.15(f). In the present case, appointed counsel also failed to file an amended motion within the specified time limit, but that failure resulted in no prejudice. So far as concerns points argued on this appeal (by counsel different from the one who appeared before the motion court), the belated amended motion did not differ from the pro se motion. Therefore even if the amended motion had been filed on time, that would not have affected the result.
What Pollard’s new counsel on appeal really argues in Point II is that counsel before the motion court did not do everything which might have been done, and the brief on appeal asks a remand for the purpose of another and expanded hearing. To acquiesce in that request would go far beyond the narrow compass of Sanders and Luleff, and as stated in Sanders “would defeat the clear provision of subsection (k).”