Legal Opinion
Alfred Cleveland v. Margaret Bradshaw
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2012No. 11-3162PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Alfred Cleveland is currently serving a term of life imprisonment for the 1991 murder of Marsha Blakely. On January 21, 2010, Cleveland filed a habeas petition in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio asserting six claims for relief. 1 Although Cleveland did not file his habeas petition within the applicable limitations period, he argued that his “actual innocence” of the crime mandated equitable tolling of the limitations period and that the discovery of a new factual predicate for his habeas claims entitled him to…
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3Cited by54 opinions
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