United States First Circuit

The pendency in federal court of a prior dismissed habeas petition does not toll the statute of limitations for the purposes of a subsequent petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2001
• Published 08/20/2001

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John M. Thompson, by appointment of the court, with whom Trevor Neverson, pro se ipso, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee., Brenda M. O'Malley, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dep't of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief, for provisional respondent (Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service).