United States Ninth Circuit

A pro se habeas petitioner's lack of legal sophistication is not, by itself, an extraordinary circumstance warranting equitable tolling. A habeas petition filed after the district court dismisses a previous petition without prejudice for failure to exhaust state remedies cannot relate back to the original habeas petition.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/06/2006
• Decided 05/25/2006
• Published 05/25/2006

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, TROTT and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ann C. McClintock, Assistant Federal Defender, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark A. Johnson and Eric L. Christoffersen, Deputy Attorneys General, Sacramento, CA, for the respondents-appellees.