United States v. Cicero, Kendrick A.

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• deciding that, in the context of a § 2255 petition, equitable tolling was not warranted where petitioner entrusted his legal papers to another inmate who was placed in segregation, thus separating petitioner from his own legal documents
• suggesting that a prisoner’s ignorance of the law or unfamiliarity with the legal process will not excuse his untimely filing, nor will lack of representation during the applicable filing period
• determining that not even a petitioner being stabbed, spending five days hospitalized, and an unspecified amount of time in segregation with restricted library access constitutes an extraordinary circumstance
• suggesting that a prisoner’s ignorance of the law or unfamiliarity with the legal process will not excuse his untimely filing, nor will lack of representation during the applicable filing period
• noting that the petitioner in that case had never asked prison officials to return the papers from which he was separated during a lawful prison transfer
• finding no equitable tolling was warranted where the petitioner gave his legal files to a jailhouse lawyer whose placement in segregation resulted in the loss of the files

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