Wesley Hatmon v. State of Missouri

Summary

The court vacated the circuit court’s judgment and remanded for a factual determination of when Hatmon was first delivered to the Department of Corrections on the Dallas County sentence. That date controls whether his pro se post-conviction motion was timely under the applicable 180-day filing period. The court further held that the law-of-the-case doctrine did not prevent reconsideration of timeliness because the record suggested a mistake and the filing deadline is mandatory.