Hutchins v. Secretary for Department of Corrections

Randall P. Hutchins, a Florida prisoner, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus as time-barred pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Hutchins pled guilty to one count of possession of child pornography with intent to promote and was sentenced to fifteen years’ probation. He later violated his probation, and, as a result, he was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. The district court denied Hutchins’s habeas pe tition as time-barred, but it relied on Rainey v. Sec’y for Dep’t of Corrs., 443 F.3d 1323 (11th Cir.2006), which we overruled in Ferreira v. Sec’y,…