United States Eleventh Circuit

When a habeas corpus petition is filed before enactment of the AEDPA, and an amended petition is filed more than one year after the date of the Act, the limitations period under the AEDPA bar the amendments if they do not "relate back" to the original petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2001
• Published 12/03/2001

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before EDMONDSON and RONEY, Circuit Judges, and DIMITROULEAS , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory W. Kehoe,James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy J. Hess, Randall J. Hensel, Pensacola, FL, William Wagner, Dept. of Justice, Gainesville, FL, for Respondent-Appellee.