Julius Robinson v. G. Lewis

ORDER

We ask the California Supreme Court to resolve an important question of state law that the Ninth Circuit has long struggled to answer, a struggle that absorbs appellate and district court resources and frustrates state prisoners. The question is: when is a state prisoner’s petition for a writ of state habeas corpus in a non-capital case timely filed in a California court? Without the California Supreme Court’s guidance on this issue, federal courts lack the means to máke a correct determination of whether a state habeas petition was properly filed, and thus whether its filing tolls the…