Legal Opinion
Daniel Andrew Spottsville v. William Terry
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 1, 2007No. 05-12656PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
Daniel Spottsville, a Georgia prisoner, appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely and raises two issues: whether Spottsville’s filing of papers in the wrong clerk’s office to appeal the denial of his state petition for habeas relief tolled the limitations period for filing his federal petition; and, alternatively, whether Spottsville is entitled to equitable tolling for having relied on misleading instructions about filing an appeal in the order that denied his state petition. The district court concluded that Spotts-ville erroneously…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Arthur v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2006
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- Gerard Joseph Pugh v. Hugh SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2006
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3Cited by34 opinions
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- Robert CampbellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2014
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