United States Ninth Circuit

Equitable tolling to one-year requirement under the AEDPA applies to a pro se petitioner whose petition was sent back for using the incorrect cover sheet and subsequently lost by the court clerk.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2002
• Published 01/17/2002

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  POLITZ,W. FLETCHER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Quin Denver and Daniel J. Broderick, Office of the Federal Defender, Sacramento, California, for petitioner-appellant Michael M. Corjasso.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, David P. Druliner, Robert R. Anderson, Stan Cross, Patrick J. Whalen, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, California, for respondent-appellee Robert L. Ayers, Warden.