Legal Opinion
Paul A. Howell v. James v. Crosby
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 6, 2005No. 04-16542PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The only issue in this appeal is whether the district court erred when it dismissed as untimely the petition for a writ of habe-as corpus filed by Paul A. Howell, a Florida prisoner under a sentence of death. Howell concedes that he did not file his petition within the one-year statute of limitations imposed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1), but Howell argues that he is entitled to equitable tolling under section 2244(d)(2). Howell contends that the statute of limitations should be tolled because the private…
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