Coppage v. McKune

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• holding that the district 3 court did not err in declining to permit equitable tolling when the movant had 50 days to file his § 2255 motion
• declining to address arguments for equitable tolling because they had not been “presented to the district court in response to the government’s motion to dismiss”
• prisoner excused from checking status of state postconviction motion during period when clerk assured prisoner that court would not act
• “A COA will issue ‘only if the applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.’ ” (emphasis added
• “If the application was denied on procedural grounds, the applicant faces a double hurdle.”
• petitioner did not act with diligence where he had fifty days remaining on limitations period upon receiving notice of state court order, but failed to timely file habeas petition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).