MN HF4045

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 590.01, subdivision 4, to modify time limits for postconviction relief petitions currently capped at two years after judgment or appellate disposition.

Adds new exceptions allowing courts to hear time-barred petitions when petitioner establishes physical disability or mental disease prevented timely filing.

Permits courts to hear petitions based on newly discovered evidence (including scientific evidence) that establishes by clear and convincing standard the petitioner's innocence, if evidence could not have been discovered through due diligence.

Allows courts to hear petitions asserting new interpretations of federal or state constitutional or statutory law by the United States Supreme Court or Minnesota appellate court if retroactively applicable.

Creates a catch-all provision allowing courts to hear any postconviction relief petition regardless of filing date if the petition is not frivolous and is in the interests of justice.