Roberts v. Cockrell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a conviction is final when the defendant does not timely proceed to the next available step in the state appeal process
• holding that a conviction is final when the defendant does not timely proceed to the next available step in the state appeal process
• holding that state prisoner’s conviction was final when the time for filing a petition for discretionary review expired
• holding that a conviction is final when the defendant does not timely proceed to the next available step in the state appeal process
• holding that, when the petitioner has halted the review process, “the conviction becomes final when the time for seeking further direct review in the state court expires.”
• holding that, when the petitioner has halted the review process, “the conviction becomes final when the time for seeking further direct review in the state court expires.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).