Where a defendant filed a timely pro se motion for post-conviction relief and then retained counsel who filed an untimely amended motion, the Missouri Supreme Court has declined to extend the abandonment doctrine to excuse an untimely amended motion filed ...

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Cornelious v. State (MLW No. 70146/Case No. WD70146 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.)

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