United States Eleventh Circuit

Plaintiff's state-court motion to vacate an allegedly void sentence was properly filed such that it tolled the limitations period for filing federal habeas petitions set forth in 28 U.S.C. section 224(d)(1).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2004
• Published 08/31/2004

Judges

• ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and ROYAL , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mildred Geckler Dunn, Stephanie Kearns (Fed. Pub. Def.), Fed. Def. Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paula Khristian Smith, Adam Marshall Hames, GA Dept. of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.