Walton v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

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• finding that federal habeas petitioner’s second state post-conviction petition was untimely and thus with no tolling effect on federal petition, though the state post-conviction petition was denied only on successiveness grounds
• stating a petitioner’s failure to comply with a rule governing filings only results in an improperly filed petition if the rule was firmly established and regularly followed
• “An application for postconviction relief filed in state court is not ‘properly filed’ if it is untimely.”
• “An untimely state petition is not “properly filed” and cannot toll the federal limitation period.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).