United States Ninth Circuit

A district court's erroneous dismissal of a habeas petition for failure to exhaust state remedies constitutes extraordinary circumstances to warrant equitable tolling under the AEDPA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2001
• Published 09/04/2001

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, WALLACE and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles Roger Jorss, Pro Se, Ione, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ross C. Moody, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellee.