United States Seventh Circuit

An attorney's failure to act as a result of incapacity will not permit equitable tolling, thus dismissal of a 28 U.S.C. section 2254 petition as untimely is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/29/2003
• Decided 03/10/2003
• Published 03/10/2003

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Locke E. Bowman, III,MacArthur Justice Center, Karen L. Daniel, Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Browers, Colleen M. Griffin, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.