United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of a habeas petition as untimely under the one-year statute of limitations established by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is affirmed over a claim that petitioner was entitled to statutory and equitable tolling because the Arizona Department of Corrections did not make available to him case law interpreting the AEDPA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2007
• Decided 08/27/2007
• Published 08/27/2007

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, D.W. NELSON, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Megan B. Moriarty, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Walsh, Deputy Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for the respondents-appellees.