Self v. Stewart

MEMORANDUM ***

The district court properly denied Selfs petition for a writ of habeas corpus as time-barred. Under Arizona law, a prisoner’s claims are exhausted for habeas purposes once an appeal is presented to the Arizona Court of Appeals and that court has ruled on them. See Swoopes v. Sublett 196 F.3d 1008, 1010 (9th Cir.1999) (holding limited to prisoners not sentenced to life imprisonment or death). Selfs direct appeal was finalized and his claims exhausted on August 14, 1992, when the Arizona Court of Appeals issued its first mandate in his case. This mandate was not implicitly…