Legal Opinion
Hamilton v. Secretary, DOC
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 15, 2010No. 08-14836PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Per curiam
The issue in this 28 U.S.C. § 2254 capital case is whether the doctrines of equitable estoppel and judicial estoppel operate to lift the petitioner’s claims over the statute of limitations bar contained in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d).1 In an earlier opinion we remanded the case to the district court with a request that it conduct an evidentia-ry hearing and answer nine questions we posed, so that we could then decide the legal issues. See Hamilton v. Sec’y, Dep’t of Corrs., 325 Fed.Appx. 832 (2009) (unpublished).
On remand, the district court did exactly as we had requested; after conducting an…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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