Sentence examples similar to appeal filing deadline from inspiring English sources
MIAMI — Lawyers for a man scheduled to be executed in Florida on Feb. 26 for killing a state trooper filed a motion in federal court on Wednesday arguing that the prisoner had been wrongly denied his final appeal because of a missed filing deadline.
Ms. Pollock will go free only because a student plucked her letter from among the 17,000 that the law school clinic at Northwestern University receives every year, and the clinic persuaded the Supreme Court to hear an appeal filed after the deadline had passed.
Since there is no filing deadline and no appeal if an application is denied, administration officials have urged young people to take their time to get it right.
The court gave him a new lawyer, who missed a filing deadline for an appeal and ignored Lee's letters and phone calls and was referred to the state's Committee on Professional Conduct.
That year, the United States Supreme Court stated that a lawyer's misconduct or "gross negligence" may be enough to override the one-year filing deadline for final federal appeal under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
His appeal was dismissed when he missed a filing deadline.
Because of the resulting delay, the lawyers missed by 20 minutes the 5 p.m. filing deadline at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, where the appeal had to go first before moving to the Supreme Court.
Mr. McMillan has until Monday, the filing deadline, to accept or decline, but his initial response to the appeal was that he was "not inclined" to jump in.
Bartholomew tried to appeal, but the Ninth Circuit denied it in 2010, saying he had missed the filing deadline by more than a year.
After Mr. Howell's conviction, one of his court-appointed lawyers missed a filing deadline that would have allowed him to appear in federal court for this last appeal.
