1999. On March 29, 1999, the ICE recommended dismissal, and the warden again affirmed the decision.
¶ 3. Walker requested further review from the Corrections Complaint Examiner (CCE) in a document dated March 30, 1999. The CCE recommended dismissal of Walker's complaint and the secretary of the Department of Corrections (DOC) adopted that recommendation. The secretary's final decision was dated June 3, 1999, but there is no evidence as to when Walker received the decision. At this point, Walker had exhausted all of his appeals within the corrections system.
¶ 4. On July 1, 1999, the circuit court received Walker's petition for a writ of certiorari, petition for fee waiver and affidavit of indigency, and authorization to withhold money from his trust account, as evidenced by the clerk's date stamp.Walker asserts he sent these documents on June 23, 1999.
¶ 5. Walker further asserts that on July 21, 1999, the circuit court returned these documents to him, stating that they were incomplete because he needed to submit a Department of Justice (DOJ) certification, a six-month statement of his trust account, and proof of *182 exhaustion of remedies. In his motion to reconsider, Walker stated that on August 6, 1999, he returned the documents, alleging that everything was originally there except the DOJ certification, which he enclosed. He also implied that the prison had earlier sent the trust account statement. He did not say when he requested the DOJ certification, which is dated July 12, 1999.
¶ 6. On August 16, 1999, the circuit court again received Walker's documents, including