Dillon v. Hutchinson

OPINION

COOK, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-Appellant, Thomas J. Dillon, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Dillon claimed entitlement to the writ because the State of Tennessee denied him his right to a speedy trial after his transfer from federal to state custody to be tried on pending state charges pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (“IAD”). The district court dismissed the petition because it found that the one-year statute of limitations enacted by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996…