Legal Opinion
Mateos v. West
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 15, 2005No. 1:04-cv-02846PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GARAUFIS, District Judge.
Petitioner Edward Mateos brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mateos .filed his habeas petition close to four years after the one-year filing deadline set forth by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) but asserts that the confiscation and destruction of his case file at an unspecified point in time by prison officials constitutes extraordinary circumstances that warrant the equitable tolling of the limitations period. For the reasons set forth below, the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is DENIED as untimely.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
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