United States v. Todd Lewis Hopkins

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge LUTTIG joined.

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge:

Todd Lewis Hopkins appeals the district court’s dismissal, for lack of timeliness, of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion. According to Hopkins, his petition was timely because the one-year period of limitation established in § 2255 did not commence to run until the Supreme Court’s recent stop and frisk decision in Florida v. J.L., 529 U.S. 266, 120 S.Ct. 1375, 146 L.Ed.2d 254 (2000). As explained below, we find it unnecessary to consider whether Hopkins’ § 2255…