Legal Opinion
Frank Huizar v. Tom Carey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 14, 2001No. 00-56285PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
Under the “prison mailbox rule” of Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988), a prisoner’s federal habeas petition is deemed filed when he hands it over to prison authorities for mailing to the district court. We consider how the rule applies if the petition is never received or filed by the court.
Huizar is a California state prisoner convicted of first degree murder. On April 15, 1996, he gave prison officials a state court habeas petition for mailing to the Superior Court; the prison’s log of inmates’ outgoing mail confirms this. On June…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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3Cited by118 opinions
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