Robison v. Hinkle

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• where a petitioner files other pleadings during the alleged period of incompetency, courts are often unwilling to apply equitable tolling
• “A petitioner’s ability to make other legal filings during the alleged period of his incompetency counsels strongly against allowing equitable tolling of [his] federal habeas petition”
• “[c]ourts have consistently held that a failure to link a mental condition to a failure to file a timely petition is fatal to a petitioner’s claim for equitable tolling”
• a petitioner must allege facts that establish “the existence of ‘a causal relationship between the extraordinary circumstances on which the claim for equitable tolling rests and the lateness of his filing . . . .’”

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