Legal Opinion
Souliotes v. Evans
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 20, 2010No. 08-15943PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge McKeown; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge ZILLY.
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner George Souliotes, a California prisoner, is currently serving a life sentence for three murders by arson that he claims he did not commit. Souliotes seeks to prove his innocence based on the results of new fire testing methods that he claims could have only been reasonably discovered in 2005. We are called upon to decide whether his petition for writ of habeas corpus was timely filed under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), Pub.L. No. 104-132,…
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