Craig v. White

David Smith Craig asks this court to equitably toll the one-year 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) statute of limitations for his untimely habeas petition. After pleading no contest to three felonies in state court, Craig was sentenced under Michigan’s habitual offender statute to eight to twenty years in prison. Craig appealed his sentence, but he did not challenge the application of the habitual offender statute. The Michigan Court of Appeals denied his leave to appeal on September 29,1999, and Craig did not appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court. Craig filed his federal petition for habeas corpus on…