United States Ninth Circuit

A habeas petitioner's reliance on the erroneous advice of appointed counsel did not amount to "extraordinary circumstances beyond appellant's control" sufficient to warrant equitable tolling of the one-year statute of limitations on filing a federal habeas petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2002
• Published 06/12/2002

Judges

• Before O'SCANNLAIN, RYMER, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marilee Marshall,Marilee Marshall & Associates, Pasadena, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of California;  Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General;  and Deborah J. Chuang and G. Tracey Letteau, Deputy Attorneys General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees.