Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Lafler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 14, 2004No. 02-2151PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed Phillip Townsend’s habeas corpus petition because he filed it after the expiration of the one-year statute of limitations under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) § 101, 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). On appeal, Townsend urges us to construe AEDPA to toll the statute of limitations for claims premised on the “actual innocence” of the petitioner. Because Townsend has not presented a plausible claim of “actual innocence,” we reject his claim and save for another day the answer to the question he invites us to consider.
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