Legal Opinion
Fred G. Stillman v. A.A. Lamarque
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 18, 2003No. 02-15139PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOULD, Circuit Judge.
We are asked to determine whether California prisoner Fred Stillman’s habeas corpus petition was timely. 1 Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), the timeliness of Stillman’s federal habeas petition depends on whether he filed an earlier California habeas petition before the close of business on August 11, 1999. 2 The California Supreme Court clerk stamped Stillman’s ha-beas petition “filed” on August 12, 1999. Nonetheless, Stillman argues (1) that under the “mailbox rule” he constructively filed the petition on August 11, 1999, and (2)…
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