Panos Tsolainos v. Burl Cain, Warden

PER CURIAM: **

Panos Tsolainos appeals the dismissal, as time-barred, of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Because Tsolainos concedes that his petition was untimely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), we consider only whether the district court erred in refusing equitable tolling in light of Tsolainos’s allegations of gross misconduct by his counsel. We AFFIRM.

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In 2000, Tsolainos was convicted in Louisiana state court of the second-degree murder of Deborah Tsolainos and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of…