Darrell Dolphy v. Warden, Central State Prison

Darrell Dolphy, a Georgia prisoner, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 federal habeas petition. The district court found that the petition was untimely filed under the one-yeár statute of limitations established by the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA). See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). Whether Dolphy’s petition was timely turns on when his state habeas proceedings stopped “pending” for purposes of AEDPA’s tolling provision, 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2). The district court concluded that those proceedings became complete once the Georgia Supreme…