Omar Taylor v. Timothy Filson

MEMORANDUM **

Omar Taylor appeals the district court’s denial of equitable tolling of the Antiter-rorism and Effective Death Penalty Act’s (“AEDPA”) one-year statute of limitations to file a federal habeas petition. In 1997, Taylor entered a -written plea agreement pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25, 91 S.Ct. 160, 27 L.Ed.2d 162 (1970). He did not file a direct appeal. Rather he filed two state habeas claims— one in 2003, and one in 2007—both of which were dismissed as untimely. He filed his federal habeas petition on July 14, 2008. The federal district court also dismissed the…