United States First Circuit

Petitioner did not file his habeas petition within the one-year grace period for defendants whose convictions occurred prior to passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, and no basis for equitable tolling of that period existed under the circumstances.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2002
• Published 11/14/2002

Judges

• LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Linda A. Wagner, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth Prevett, Federal Defender Office, for appellee.