Legal Opinion
Donovan v. State of Maine
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 10, 2002No. 01-1367PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is the latest in an ever-lengthening line of cases trailing in the wake of Congress’s enactment of a limitation period for the filing of federal habeas petitions. See, e.g., Delaney v. Matesanz, 264 F.3d 7 (1st Cir.2001); Neverson v. Bissonnette, 261 F.3d 120 (1st Cir.2001); Gaskins v. Duval, 183 F.3d 8 (1st Cir.1999) (per curiam). The limitation period is part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 214 (1996). The statute of limitations for federal review of state prisoners’ habeas applications is codified…
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