Leroy Nolan v. United States

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Leroy Nolan is trying to pursue a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, but he has been blocked at the doorway by the one-year statute of limitations that applies to such motions. He realizes that this is a formidable problem, which he can avoid only if this court is willing to find that the deadline has been equitably tolled in his case. Limitations periods to one side, he would like to show that he received constitutionally ineffective counsel and that he was improperly convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bailey v.…