Dixon v. Cain

Johnnie F. Dixon, Louisiana prisoner no. 305653, appeals the dismissal, as untimely, of his federal habeas application brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Dixon was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for killing his ex-wife. See State v. Dixon, 620 So.2d 904, 906-07 (La.Ct.App.1993). The district court granted a Certificate of Appealability on whether the one year limitation period of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) should have been suspended “from the time the [state] trial judge denied [Dixon’s] application for post-conviction relief until the deadline the trial judge set for…