Earl Wilson v. John C. Battles, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the litigant’s or attorney’s mistake or confusion did not constitute extraordinary circumstances
• “Any [state] provision allowing time for a rehearing petition has no bearing on AEDPA’s one-year statute of limitations.”
• “Any [state] provision allowing time for a rehearing petition has no bearing on AEDPA’s one-year statute of limitations”
• “The issue of whether a post-conviction petition is pending for habeas purposes is governed by state law.”
• judgment on post-conviction petition became final when Illinois Supreme Court entered order denying petitioner’s PLA
• “good faith confusion” over filing deadline did not warrant equitable tolling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).