Legal Opinion
Fields v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 29, 1998No. 98-10012PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Per curiam
Our court having held in Flanagan v. Johnson, 154 F.3d 196 (5th Cir.1998) and U.S. v. Flores, 135 F.3d 1000 (5th Cir.1998), that 28 U.S.C. § 2254 federal habeas applicants and 28 U.S.C. § 2255 movants whose claims would have been otherwise time-barred immediately as of the enactment of the one-year limitations period in the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996) (AEDPA), instead have one year following AEDPA’s effective date to file then-applications, at issue is whether this one year is tolled pending the pursuit of state habeas…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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3Cited by53 opinions
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