Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. Thaler
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 6, 2010No. 08-10871PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant Rafael Gonzalez appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court held that Gonzalez’s petition was time-barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) because he failed to file his petition within one year of the expiration of his time to appeal his intermediate state appellate court judgment to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. We affirm.
FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
On July 14, 2005, Gonzalez was convicted of murder and sentenced to thirty -years in prison.…
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