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Tenth Circuit· 8/17/2001

Woodward v. Williams

Citations

  • 263 F.3d 1135
  • 57 Fed. R. Serv. 909
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 18571
  • 2001 WL 946452

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that lack of knowledge of state court decision may provide basis for equitable tolling when prisoner acts diligently
  • holding that state court “correctly found that Deborah’s state- ments to Butler and Maggart fall within the excited-utterance exception”
  • concluding that the victim’s statement, “He is going to kill me,” related to the startling event of the appellant intruding into her house and shoving her father, and that the statement was properly admitted under the excited utterance exception
  • recognizing two issues on appeal and upholding the New Mexico Supreme Court on the issue of exited utterance but reversing in part the defendant’s federal statute of limitations claim
  • recognizing two issues on appeal and upholding the New Mexico Supreme Court on the issue of exited utterance but reversing in part the defendant’s federal statute of limitations claim
  • remanding on equitable tolling issue despite eleven-month delay between date conviction became final and date of state petition for post-conviction relief

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Judges: Ebel, Henry, Rogers

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Cites

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