Legal Opinion
Arthur Calderon, Warden, California State Prison, San Quentin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 17, 1997No. 97-70277PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
We decide whether the one-year time limit for filing a petition for writ of habeas corpus, enacted in section 101 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), P.L. 104-132, 1996 U.S.C.C.A.N. (110 Stat.) 1214, 1217, is a statute of limitations subject to equitable tolling or an inflexible limitation on federal court jurisdiction.
I. Background
Real party in interest Rodney Gene Beeler was convicted of first-degree murder by a California jury and sentenced to death. He unsuccessfully pursued a direct appeal in the state courts, see People v.…
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