Derrell J. Chamblee v. State of Florida

I concur in the judgment affirming the district court's dismissal of Chamblee's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely, and I join the majority opinion. I write separately only to mark what I take to be the limits of our decision.

As a matter of first principles, so to speak, I think it's a close and difficult question whether the Florida trial court's August 2010 judgment here was (ever) sufficiently "final" to start Chamblee's one-year federal-habeas clock. As the majority opinion correctly explains, that judgment-the only state-court judgment at issue in this case-embodied (1) a criminal…