Legal Opinion
Feliz Talaz Villegas v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1999No. 98-10298PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
Texas state prisoner Feliz Talaz Villegas appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court *468found that Villegas did not file his petition within the limitation period established by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996) (“AEDPA”). We conclude that the statute of limitations was tolled while Villegas’s second state habeas petition was pending. Because we exclude that time period from the calculus, we find that Villegas’s federal petition was timely. We therefore vacate…
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