Legal Opinion
Ragan v. Horn
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 10, 2009No. Civil Action 00-2092PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EXPLANATION AND ORDER
ANITA B. BRODY, District Judge.
Petitioner moves for modification of my Judgment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For the following reasons, I find that Ragan’s petition is time-barred because he did not act with reasonable diligence after the extraordinary circumstances preventing his filing had resolved.
I. Background
On March 6, 2008, I issued a Memorandum and Order, 538 F.Supp.2d 906 (E.D.Pa.2008) holding that Derrick Ragan (“Ragan”) had filed a timely petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (the “Petition”). 1 I was advised by…
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