Legal Opinion
Ronald Bert Smith v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 28, 2012No. 11-13802PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Per curiam
Ronald Bert Smith appeals the dismissal of his federal habeas corpus petition brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, (“AED-PA”), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214. The district court dismissed the federal petition because it was not filed within AEDPA’s one-year statute of limitations. The only issues here involve tolling.
The district court rejected Smith’s argument that his application for state post-conviction relief statutorily tolled AED-*1268PA’s one-year filing deadline, concluding that Smith had not “properly filed”…
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