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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

Jeffrey Dennis Quiggle, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

Charles L. Ryan, et al., 

Respondents.

No. CV-14-01142-PHX-SRB

ORDER 

 Petitioner, Jeffrey Dennis Quiggle, filed his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus on 

May 28, 2014. He signed and certified the mailing of his Petition on May 22. In his 

Petition he asserted two grounds for relief; ineffective assistance of trial counsel arising 

out of advice regarding the potential for using interviews of the victim in lieu of 

testimony and alleged denial of due process as a result of the trial judge’s active 

participation in plea negotiations. Respondents filed a limited answer on July 1, 2014, 

asserting that the Petition was barred by the statute of limitations and procedural default. 

Petitioner filed his reply on July 29, 2014. 

 On September 19, 2014, the Magistrate Judge issued his Report and 

Recommendation concluding that the Petition was not timely filed within the one year 

habeas limitations period provided in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). The Magistrate Judge also 

concluded that Petitioner established no basis for equitable tolling of the habeas 

limitations period. The Magistrate Judge recommended that the Petition for Writ of 

Habeas Corpus be dismissed with prejudice and a Certificate of Appealability be denied. 

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Petitioner filed timely written objections on October 6, 2014. Respondents have filed no 

response to the objections. 

 The Court made a de novo review of the record and finds itself in agreement with 

the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge, except as to a factual error 

which does not change the outcome. 

 Petitioner’s objections largely argue that his ignorance of the facts and the law 

resulted in his untimely filing of his state Petition for Post-Conviction Relief and reargues his claim rejected both by the state court and by this Court that his second Petition 

for Post-Conviction Relief was timely based on a change in the law. Petitioner’s 

objections are overruled. As noted by the Magistrate Judge, Petitioner’s December 1, 

2011, state court Notice of Post-Conviction Relief was filed almost nine months after he 

was sentenced and it was summarily dismissed because Petitioner had provided nothing 

to support his allegations of actual innocence. Petitioner does not dispute that he never 

sought further review of the dismissal of his first Post-Conviction Relief proceeding. 

 In May of 2012 Petitioner filed his second Notice of Post-Conviction Relief based 

on an alleged significant change in the law. The state court found that neither of the two 

recent Supreme Court cases cited by Petitioner applied to him. Therefore, because his 

second Post-Conviction Relief proceeding was not founded upon an applicable change in 

the law, it was untimely and precluded as successive. Petitioner did seek review of this 

dismissal, and his Petition for Review was summarily denied by the Arizona Supreme 

Court on March 27, 2014. 

 The pending Petition was filed on May 28, 2014, 62 days after the denial of his 

Petition for Review by the Arizona Supreme Court and was signed on May 22, 2014, 56 

days after the denial of his Petition for Review by the Arizona Supreme Court. In his 

Report and Recommendation, the Magistrate Judge noted that at the time of the denial of 

his Petition for Post-Conviction Relief only 39 days remained of the one-year statute of 

limitations under the most generous tolling considerations. The factual error by the 

Magistrate Judge in his Report and Recommendation appears on page 11, line 1 where he 

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mistakenly stated that the Arizona Supreme Court denied the Petition for Review on 

September 10, 2013. In fact the Petition was denied on March 27, 2014. This factual 

error makes no difference in the outcome because whether using the filing date of May 

28 or the signed date of May 22, the Petition in this Court was filed more than 39 days 

after the recommencement of the running of the one-year statute of limitations. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED overruling the objections of the Petitioner. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED adopting the Report and Recommendation of the 

Magistrate Judge as the Order of this Court. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is 

dismissed with prejudice because it was not filed before the expiration of the statute of 

limitations. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying a Certificate of Appealability because jurist 

of reason would not find it debatable whether this Court was correct in its procedural 

ruling. 

 Dated this 24th day of October, 2014. 

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