United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is reversed where the district court incorrectly ruled that it was untimely under the limitations provision in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/2005
• Decided 07/07/2005
• Published 07/07/2005

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and SAMUEL G. WILSON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Warren Lease, Smith, Lease & Goldstein, L.L.C., Rockville, Maryland, for Appellant.  Mary Ann Rapp Ince, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.