Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Donnelly
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 10, 2000No. 99-60062PublishedCited by 207 opinions
1Per curiam
Raymond Phillips pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter in Mississippi state court on June 29, 1995. He subsequently filed a petition seeking habeas corpus relief in federal court, which was denied because of untimeliness. We then granted a certificate of appealability (“COA”) on the single issue of whether Phillips’s habeas corpus motion was timely filed. For the reasons stated below, we vacate the district court’s dismissal and remand for a hearing as to whether Phillips is entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations.
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On June 29, 1995, Phillips entered a guilty plea on the…
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