Legal Opinion
Burns v. Morton
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided July 18, 1997No. Civil Action 97-2507PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ORLOFSKY, District Judge:
Petitioner, Donald Burns (“Burns”), who is currently incarcerated at the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, has moved for the appointment of counsel to represent him in connection with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to § 2254. Respondents have filed a Motion to Dismiss that Petition.
Respondents contend that Burns’s petition is time-barred under the one-year statute of limitations included in the recent Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244.…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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