United States Supreme Court

In a capital habeas matter, the Eleventh Circuit's affirmance of the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed and remanded where: 1) 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d), the AEDPA statute of limitations, is subject to equitable tolling in appropriate cases, and the per se standard employed by the Eleventh Circuit was too rigid; and 2) the district court incorrectly rested its ruling not on a lack of extraordinary circumstances (which may well be present), but on a lack of diligence.

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• Decided 06/14/2010
• Published 06/14/2010

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