Legal Opinion
Michael N. Corjasso, III v. Robert L. Ayers, Warden Attorney General of the State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 8, 2002No. 00-16591PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Michael M. Corjasso, III is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole in California state prison. Proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal district court on December 13, 1996. His petition was eventually dismissed as untimely pursuant to the one-year statute of limitations contained in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AED-PA”). See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). We agree with Corjasso that he is entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations. We therefore…
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