Legal Opinion
Arnold v. Dittmann
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 2018No. 16-3392PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rovner, Circuit Judge.
Richard M. Arnold appeals the district court's order dismissing as untimely his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. There is no dispute that Arnold's petition was filed beyond the one-year deadline established by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1), but Arnold alleges that his actual innocence of the crime for which he was convicted-repeated sexual assault of a child-supports an equitable exception to the time limit and allows his late petition. See McQuiggin v. Perkins , 569 U.S. 383, 133 S.Ct. 1924, 185 L.Ed.2d 1019 (2013). He relies on the recantation affidavit of the key…
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