Coker v. Quarterman

PER CURIAM: *

This Court granted Thomas Lane Coker a Certificate of Appealability (“COA”) solely on the issue of whether the limitations period should have been equitably tolled because he did not receive notice of the denial of his state habeas application. Coker v. Dretke, No. 05-10020, slip op. at 2 (5th Cir. June 8, 2006). For the following reasons, the district court’s denial of habe-as corpus relief is REVERSED and REMANDED.

I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Coker was convicted after a bench trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm and he was sentenced to an enhanced forty-year term of…