Legal Opinion
Lawrence v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 20, 2007No. 05-8820PublishedCited by 1,679 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
Congress established a 1-year statute of limitations for seeking federal habeas corpus relief from a state-court judgment, 28 U. S. C. § 2244(d), and further provided that the limitations period is tolled while an “application for State post-conviction or other collateral review” “is pending,” § 2244(d)(2). We must decide whether a state application is still “pending” when the state courts have entered a final judgment on the matter but a petition for certiorari has been filed in this Court. We hold that it is not.
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Petitioner Gary Lawrence and his wife used a pipe and baseball bat to kill…
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