In re Smith

William Smith, who is serving a federal-court sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), seeks a certificate of appealability of the district court’s dismissal of his habeas corpus petition as untimely. The sole issue he seeks to raise on appeal is whether the district court erred in concluding that the one-year statute of limitations for filing a habeas *10petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 started to run when the Supreme Court denied his petition for a writ of certiorari from this court’s affirmance of his conviction and sentence on…