Legal Opinion
Klee Orthel v. James Yates
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 28, 2015No. 12-17165PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-Appellant Klee Christopher Orthel (“Orthel”) appeals an order of the district court granting Respondent-Appel-lee Warden James A. Yates’s (“the State”) motion to dismiss as untimely Orthel’s ha-beas petition. Orthel argues he is entitled to equitable tolling of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act’s (“AED-PA”) one-year statute of limitations due to mental incompetence. We affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In 1995, Orthel was convicted of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in violation of California Penal Code § 187. The trial…
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