Legal Opinion
Zepeda v. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2009No. 08-56085PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:
Jessie Zepeda appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a federal writ of habeas corpus as untimely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”). He argues that AEDPA’s one-year limitation period should be tolled for the entire time that his state habeas petition was in the state court’s possession, even though it initially lacked the verification required by California law for proper filing. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
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In July 2004, Zepeda was convicted by a California jury of eight counts of…
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