Legal Opinion
George Gibbs v. Robert Legrand
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 17, 2014No. 12-16859PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
This case arises from a prisoner’s vigorous pursuit of post-conviction review in the face of egregious misconduct from his court-appointed lawyers. We focus here on one serious episode of attorney misconduct: The failure, despite prisoner-petitioner George Gibbs’s repeated inquiries, to inform Gibbs that the Nevada Supreme Court denied the appeal of his state post-conviction petition. By the time Gibbs learned the fate of his appeal, he had already missed the one-year deadline for filing a federal habeas corpus petition.
We hold that the attorney’s conduct amounted…
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