United States First Circuit

An application to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for extraordinary relief does not toll the one-year statute of limitations for a state prisoner's filing of a federal habeas corpus petition under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2005
• Published 06/15/2005

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew V. Soares, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susanne G. Reardon, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee.