062545U.pdf   05/06/2008  Albert Pierson  v.  Dave Dormire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-2545
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Wollman, Beam and Melloy,
   Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Remanded for further proceedings consistent
   with the en banc court's opinion in Riddle v. Kemna, No. 06-2542, 2008
   WL 927618 (8th Cir. 2008).
  
062545P.pdf   04/04/2007  Albert Pierson  v.  Dave Dormire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-2545
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Court adopts the position of the Second,
   Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Circuits, holding that a district court can
   grant relief from judgment pursuant to Rule 60(b) sua sponte; letter
   sent to clerk of the district court was sufficient to constitute a
   timely notice of appeal; applying Nichols v. Bowersox, 172 F.3d 1068
   (8th Cir. 1999), a Missouri prisoner's judgment becomes final within
   the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2244(d)(1)(A) exactly ninety days after
   his conviction is affirmed on direct appeal, even if he has not filed
   a motion for transfer to the Missouri Supreme Court; district court
   erred in not considering this 90 day period when it ruled the habeas
   petition was untimely, and the case is remanded for further proceedings.