United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal of petition for writ of habeas corpus as untimely is affirmed where the district court was not required to treat defendant's habeas petition as an amendment to a petition he had timely filed but voluntarily dismissed three years earlier.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2006
• Published 08/24/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and BAUER and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David E. Camic (argued), Camic, Johnson, Wilson & McCulloch, Aurora, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine D. Saunders (argued), Russell Kenneth Benton, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.