Legal Opinion
Wessinger v. Cain
District Court, M.D. Louisiana
Decided February 28, 2005No. CIV.A. 04-637-DPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON TIMELINESS OF PETITIONER’S FEDERAL WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
BRADY, District Judge.
Todd Kelvin Wessinger (“petitioner”), an indigent death-sentenced Louisiana inmate, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on September 7, 2004 (doc. 1). In a notice to counsel, filed on October 21, 2004, this court directed Mr. Wessinger to “submit a written memorandum within 20 days addressing equitable tolling and any exhaustion issue raised” by the application of the timeliness provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat.…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Zapata v. CainDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 2007
- Ward v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2017