Percy Stanley Harris v. Ronald Hutchinson, Warden, Maryland House of Corrections J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Maryland

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• holding that the “inclusion of [the four] statutory provisions does not give rise to the inference that the application of the limitation period must otherwise be absolute”
• holding that a mistake by a party’s counsel in interpreting the statute of limitations does not present the extraordinary circumstances necessary to invoke equitable tolling
• holding that attorney’s mistake in interpreting § 2244(d)’s unambiguous one-year limitations period was not an extraordinary circumstance beyond the petitioner’s control that justified equitable tolling
• holding that error by trial counsel even in interpreting statute of limitations did not present extraordinary circumstances necessary to invoke equitable tolling
• holding that an attorney’s misinterpretation of AED-PA’s limitations period did not warrant tolling
• holding that the “inclusion of [the four] statutory provisions does not give rise to the inference that the application of the limitation period must otherwise be absolute”

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