Legal Opinion
Calderon v. United States District Court
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 17, 1997No. 97-70277PublishedCited by 399 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
We decide whether the one-year time limit for filing a petition for writ of habeas corpus, enacted in section 101 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), P.L. 104-132, 1996 U.S.C.C.A.N. (110 Stat.) 1214, 1217, is a statute of limitations subject to equitable tolling or an inflexible limitation on federal court jurisdiction.
I. Background
Real party in interest Rodney Gene Beeler was convicted of first-degree murder by a California jury and sentenced to death. He unsuccessfully pursued a direct appeal in the state courts, see People v.…
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