AYERS v. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ee JEFFREY AYERS, 2 Civil Action No. 17-4560 (MCA) Petitioner, v. : OPINION STEVEN JOHNSON, et al., Respondents. I. INTRODUCTION This matter has been opened to the Court by the State’s filing of a motion to dismiss the Petition as untimely under The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”) of 1996,

Pub. L. No. 104-132,

tit. I, § 101 (1996). Because Petitioner has not provided enough evidence to support his assertion that he handed his petition to prison officials for filing within the one-year limitations period or provided a…