Howland v. Quarterman

Gene Edward Howland, Texas prisoner # 763638, was convicted by a jury of two counts of aggravated sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child by contact on December 11, 1995, and sentenced to a combined fifty years in prison. Subsequently, the district court dismissed his federal habeas petition with respect to the first sexual assault count as time-barred under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, but granted How-land a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether equitable tolling should have applied as to the second count because his state petition was…