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Parties Involved:
Austin Cooper
Appellant
Larry Norris
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Harry F. Barnes, United States District Judge for the Western

District of Arkansas, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable

James R. Marschewski, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of

Arkansas.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 07-3372

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Austin Cooper, *

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Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* Western District of Arkansas.

Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas *

Department of Corrections, * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Appellee. *

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Submitted: February 16, 2010

 Filed: February 23, 2010

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Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Austin Cooper--who is serving a life sentence on a 1993 rape conviction, see

Cooper v. Arkansas, 879 S.W.2d 405, 406 (Ark. 1994)--appeals the district court’s1

judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as time-barred. Following careful

de novo review, see Painter v. Iowa, 247 F.3d 1255, 1256 (8th Cir. 2001), we find no

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basis for reversal, see id. (time between completion of direct review of conviction and

filing of application for state post-conviction relief counts against one-year period;

when petitioner filed his state-court application for post-conviction relief, there was

no federal limitations period remaining to toll, and thus federal petition was properly

dismissed as time-barred); see also Baker v. Norris, 321 F.3d 769, 771-72 (8th Cir.

2003) (rejecting claim of equitable tolling supported in part by allegation that

inadequate access to prison law library made it impossible to file petition on time);

Flanders v. Graves, 299 F.3d 974, 976-78 (8th Cir. 2002) (to make viable claim that

28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) should be equitably tolled based on actual innocence,

petitioner would have to show some action or inaction on part of State that prevented

him from discovering relevant facts in timely fashion, or that reasonably diligent

petitioner could not have discovered facts in time to file petition within limitation

period).

Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed.

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