Legal Opinion
Raymond Powell v. Cecil Davis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 19, 2005No. 03-3799PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Indiana prisoner Raymond Powell is trying to mount a collateral attack under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on his conviction for attempted murder. The underlying constitutional issue he would like to raise is a due process challenge to the jury instructions that the trial court gave. Before we can reach that question, however, there is an antecedent procedural problem: whether Powell’s § 2254 petition was filed beyond the time period permitted by federal law. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). The district court concluded that it was indeed time-barred, and dismissed the petition on that ground.…
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