George Knickerbocker v. Christopher Artuz, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, and the Attorney General of the State of New York

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• suggesting that the prison mailbox rule is unavailable where the “delay ... is not attributable to prison officials”
• declining to apply the prison mailbox rule where, “unlike the situation addressed in Houston, the delay . . . [was] not attributable to prison officials”
• denying application of the prisoner mailbox rule where petitioner gave his legal work to his sister to mail to the court
• prisoner’s court submission is not deemed filed on its mailing date (the prison mailbox rule) if it is entrusted to someone that is not a prison official for mailing
• “[T]he prison mailbox rule . . . does not apply where a pro se prisoner delivers his notice of appeal to someone outside the prison system for forwarding to the court clerk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).