United States Ninth Circuit

A California prisoner was not entitled to the benefit of the prison "mailbox rule" under the circumstances, but equitable tolling will apply based on a prison litigation coordinator's conduct, thus a habeas petition was untimely.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/18/2003
• Published 02/18/2003

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge., Before SILVERMAN and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gail R. Weinheimer, San Anselmo, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Ortega, Deputy Attorney General, State of California, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent.