Maria Alfaro v. Deborah Johnson

OPINION

M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Deborah Johnson, Warden of the Central California Women’s Facility, appeals the district court’s grapt of Petitioner-Appellee Maria Alfaro’s petition for habeas corpus relief. We hold that Alfaro’s claim is barred by her failure to exhaust available state court remedies, and is untimely under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(c). We therefore reverse the district court’s grant of Alfaro’s petition.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 1992, a jury convicted Alfaro of first degree murder, burglary, and robbery, and also found true the special circumstance that she…