Legal Opinion
Carter v. Hodge
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 2013No. 13-2243PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The routine screening of appeals that the court’s staff conducts to make sure an appeal is -within this court’s appellate jurisdiction has flagged a significant issue of timeliness.
Michael Carter is an Illinois prison inmate whose petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, originally filed elsewhere, was transferred to the Northern District of Illinois in June of 2010. On December 5 of the following year, having heard nothing about the status of his case, Carter inquired of the clerk’s office. The office responded: “Status request: As of this date, the Court has…
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