Fierro v. Cockrell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the filing of a motion for authorization to file a successive petition “does not satisfy the one-year statute of limitations under the AEDPA”
• stating that “such uncertainty should have militated against taking an unnecessary risk by waiting to file a motion for authorization and habeas petition”
• noting but not deciding whether filing a second or successive application in the court of appeals “may equitably toll” the running of the statute of limitations
• denying equitable tolling based on \mistaken assumption\ regarding statute of limitations
• denying equitable tolling based on \mistaken assumption\ regarding statute of limitations
• It is “clear that a lack of knowledge of the law, however understandable it may be, does not ordinarily justify equitable tolling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).