Darnell Tinker v. Craig Hanks

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A state prisoner who seeks federal ha-beas corpus relief must with immaterial exceptions institute his habeas corpus proceeding within a year of when his conviction became final. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). But this period is tolled while “a properly filed application” for state posteonviction review is pending. § 2244(d)(2). When last this case was before us, we held that an application for permission to file a second state postcon-viction proceeding is not a “properly filed application” for state postconviction relief, and so the district court was correct to hold that…