United States v. Riggs

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The government appeals the grant of Kevin Riggs’s motion for collateral relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Concluding that the district court abused its discretion by equitably tolling the statute of limitations for Riggs’s untimely motion, we reverse and dismiss the § 2255 motion.

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In 1991, the police suspected Riggs and associates of drug trafficking and lured Riggs and John Jackson from their motel room based on the statements of Riggs’s associates that these two men possessed several grams of cocaine. Riggs got behind the wheel of their ear, and Jackson placed an…