Legal Opinion
Velasquez v. Kirkland
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 10, 2011No. 08-55823PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the one-year statute of limitations for filing a federal habeas corpus petition is tolled during a California state prisoner’s delays between his state-court petitions for collateral review.
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A
In 2001, Ronald Velasquez was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in California state court for the killing of Michael Roybal and was sentenced to a term of sixty years to life in prison. Following his conviction, Velasquez appealed to the California Court of Appeal, claiming that the trial court committed a number of errors and that his…
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