United States Seventh Circuit

There is no freestanding "actual innocence" exception to the one-year statute of limitations in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(1).

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/08/2005
• Decided 12/16/2005
• Published 12/19/2005

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joel T. Pelz, Kristopher R. Kiel (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David H. Iskowich (argued), Office of the Attorney General Criminal Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.