United States Ninth Circuit

The "prison mailbox rule," which deems a federal habeas petition as filed when the prisoner gives it to prison officials for mailing to the district court, applies to the petition, even if the document was never filed in court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/09/2001
• Decided 12/14/2001
• Published 12/14/2001

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BRIGHT,KOZINSKI and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robison D. Harley, Jr., Santa Ana, California, argued the cause for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan Sullivan Pithey, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, argued the cause for the appellee.