Ronald Washington, A.K.A. Boo Washington v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• pleadings filed by an incarcerated petitioner are deemed filed on the date they are placed into the prison’s official mail system
• pleadings filed by an incarcerated petitioner are considered filed on the date they were placed into the prison’s official mail system
• pleadings filed by an incarcerated petitioner are deemed filed on the date they are placed into the prison’s official mail system
• accepting the signature date on the pleading as the date of delivery to prison authorities where the government “offered no evidence to support a conclusion that the motion was delivered at a later date.”
• applying the prisoner mailbox rule in the context of a motion to vacate
• “Absent evidence to the contrary in the form of prison logs or other records, [a court] will assume [a pro se prisoner’s] motion was delivered to prison authorities the day he signed it . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).