Warren v. Garvin, PETITIONER-APPELLAN
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) |
| Writing for the Court | Appeal from a decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Patterson; Meskill |
| Citation | 219 F.3d 111 |
| Parties | (2nd Cir. 2000) DAVID WARREN,HENRY GARVIN, SUPT.CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,HANSLMAIER, RESPONDENT |
| Docket Number | V,RESPONDENT-APPELLE,MID-ORANGE,PETITIONER-APPELLAN,Docket No. 99-2616,ROBERT |
| Decision Date | 01 August 1999 |
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V.
HENRY GARVIN, SUPT. MID-ORANGE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, RESPONDENT-APPELLEE,
ROBERT HANSLMAIER, RESPONDENT.
August Term, 1999
July 11, 2000
Page 112
Malvina Nathanson, New York, Ny, for Appellant.
Mary C. Farrington, Assistant District Attorney, New York County, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, Morrie I. Kleinbart, Assistant District Attorney, New York County, New York City, of counsel), for Appellee.
Before: Meskill, Parker and Straub, Circuit Judges.
Appeal from a decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Patterson, J., dismissing as untimely appellant's second petition for writ of habeas corpus.
Affirmed.
Meskill, Circuit Judge
Petitioner-appellant David Warren was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree and two robbery counts in the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. His conviction was affirmed by the Appellate Division, and he was denied leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals of New York on September 19, 1990. His conviction became final on December 18, 1990, on the expiration of his time to petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States. See Ross v. Artuz, 150 F.3d 97, 98 (2d Cir. 1998).
Warren filed a timely petition for habeas corpus in the district court on April 21,
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1997. The petition was dismissed without prejudice on June 4, 1997 at Warren's request, to permit him to pursue collateral state relief on claims that had not been exhausted in the state courts (and were not raised in the petition). On February 22, 1999, one year, eight and a half months later, Warren filed a second petition for habeas relief.1 He had made no attempt to raise additional claims in state court, and the second petition was essentially identical to the first petition. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Patterson, J., dismissed the petition as untimely. Warren now appeals.
We affirm. Because Warren's conviction became final before the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), he had until April 24, 1997, i.e., one year after the effective date of AEDPA, to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. See Ross, 150 F.3d at 103. The instant petition, filed February 22, 1999, is therefore untimely. Warren, however, argues that the petition is timely because (1) he is entitled to equitable tolling, (2) the petition "relates back" to the filing of the original petition, and (3) the petition should have been recharacterized as a Rule 60(b) motion for relief from judgment and granted. We briefly address each argument.
We have recently stated that the limitations period for filing habeas petitions may be equitably tolled. See Smith v. McGinnis, 208 F.3d 13, 17 (2d Cir. 2000) (per curiam). Equitable tolling is a doctrine that permits courts to extend a statute of limitations on a case-by-case basis to prevent inequity. See Johnson v. Nyack Hosp., 86 F.3d 8, 12 (2d Cir. 1996); see also Geraci v. Senkowski, 211 F.3d 6, 9 (2d Cir. 2000) (considering whether there were "extraordinary or unusual circumstances that would justify equitable tolling"). In the context of a late-filed habeas petition, equitable tolling may sometimes offer an avenue for avoiding Suspension Clause issues in the "rare case" where strict application of the one year limitations period would create "an unreasonable burden." See Rodriguez v. Artuz, 990 F.Supp. 275, 282-83 (S.D.N.Y.) (Sotomayor, J.), aff'd on opinion below, 161 F.3d 763, 764 (2d Cir. 1998) (per curiam).2
Equitable tolling is available when "extraordinary circumstances" prevent a prisoner from filing a timely habeas petition. Smith, 208 F.3d at 17. "In addition, the party seeking equitable tolling must have acted with reasonable diligence throughout the period he seeks to...
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