Legal Opinion
Riva v. Ficco
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 29, 2015No. 14-1894PPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
James Riva II has filed a habeas petition in federal court that challenges his three-decades-old state murder conviction. The principal issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in ruling that Riva had filed that petition too late, given the one-year limitations period that the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) establishes for filing federal habeas petitions that challenge state convictions. We conclude that the District Court did not err, and so we affirm the petition’s denial.
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Riva’s crime is an especially horrifying one. At about 3:00…
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