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· 4/28/2000

Sammy Geraci v. Daniel Senkowski, Supt.

Citations

  • 211 F.3d 6
  • 54 Fed. R. Serv. 722
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 8272

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that an attorney’s mistake as to the time remaining to file a habeas petition did not constitute an extraordinary circumstance
  • holding coram nobis motion pending until Appellate Division’s filing of order, not until petitioner received notice of it
  • noting that the defendant bears the burden of proving an inability to p a y
  • stating that a motion is “pending” for AEDPA purposes from the time the motion is filed until it is decided
  • dismissing a habeas petition as untimely when the one-year grace period was exceeded by three days
  • “With the fifing of the Appellate Division’s coram nobis order, the door of the New York Court of Appeals was closed and further appellate review was unavailable.”

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Judges: Van Graafeiland, Newman, Pooler

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