Legal Opinion
Sanots de Aza-Paez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 15, 2003No. 02-2300PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Per curiam
Defendant-appellant Santos de Aza-Paez (Santos) appeals from the denial of his petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The district court denied the petition as untimely. We vacate and remand for the following reasons.
The undisputed facts are that Santos directed the president of a paralegal service to file his habeas petition, which arrived within the one-year deadline following the denial of his petition for certiorari. The petition was unsigned and accompanied by a memo from the paralegal service stating that Santos had requested that the agency forward his petition, the circumstances…
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