Windland v. Quarterman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that federal statute of limitations is tolled from “the day” a petition for collateral review “is filed” in state court “through (and including) the day it is resolved”
• applying Rule 6(a)(3) to tolling calculation and deadline to timely file federal habeas petition
• noting the “well- established precedent requiring that [courts] construe pro se briefs liberally”
• “[A] state habeas petition is ‘pending’ for the purposes of tolling under § 2244(d)(2) on the day it is filed through (and including) the day it is decided.”
• “[The Fifth Circuit], like every other circuit, [has] held that [Rule 6(a)] controls the calculation of the AEDPA limitations period.”
• for AEDPA tolling purposes, a state habeas application is pending from the day it is filed until and including the day it is resolved

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).