Butler v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an untimely application under Louisiana law did not extend the finality of conviction under § 2244(d)(1)
• holding that a habeas petitioner's conviction became final when he missed the 30-day period for appealing an intermediate court's decision to the Louisiana Supreme Court, rather than when the Louisiana Supreme Court dismissed his appeal as untimely
• explaining that the time period when an untimely application is pending on direct appeal before the Louisiana Supreme Court is not included in the “time for seeking direct review.”
• “the conviction becomes final when the time for seeking further direct review in the state court expires”
• “[A] conviction becomes final when the time for seeking further direct review in the state court expires.”
• “a conviction becomes final when the time for seeking further direct review in the state court expires.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).