United States Ex Rel. Williams v. De Tella

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, Senior District Judge.

Petitioner submitted this petition for a writ of habeas corpus less than one year after his judgment of conviction became final by the expiration of the time to file a petition for writ of certiorari. 1 The Seventh Circuit has yet to determine whether the time to petition for a writ of certiorari is included in the concept of “direct review” in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). 2 See Gendron v. United States, 154 F.3d 672 (7th Cir.1998). We conclude, though, that the plain language of the statute requires inclusion of the 90 days, a conclusion also…