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Parties Involved:
Attorney General New Jersey
Appellee
Greg Bartkowski
Appellee
Carnell Gibbs
Appellant
Charles Warren
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

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Nos. 13-2242 & 14-3421

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CARNELL GIBBS,

Appellant

v.

GREG BARTKOWSKI; ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY; 

CHARLES WARREN

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On Appeal from the United States District Court

for the District of New Jersey

District Court No. 1-11-cv-01137

District Judge: The Honorable Noel L. Hillman

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Submitted Under Third Circuit L.A.R. 34.1(a)

April 10, 2015

Before: RENDELL, HARDIMAN, and VANASKIE, Circuit Judges.

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JUDGMENT ORDER

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Appellant Carnell Gibbs filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 

U.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on 

February 9, 2011. In an order dated March 18, 2013, the District Court dismissed that 

petition as time-barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). We granted a certificate of 

appealability to address whether the limitations period on Gibbs’s petition should have 

been tolled between January 9, 2008, when the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate 

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Division, began considering the merits of Gibbs’s initially untimely appeal of the 

dismissal of his state-court collateral-review application, and October 7, 2010, when the 

New Jersey Supreme Court denied Gibbs’s petition for review. In a letter brief dated 

February 19, 2015, Appellees conceded that the limitations period should have been 

tolled during that period, and that as a result, Gibbs’s petition was not time-barred. 

Accordingly, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the judgment of the District Court entered 

March 18, 2013, be and is hereby VACATED and the matter is REMANDED for further 

proceedings.

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By the Court,

s/ Thomas I. Vanaskie

Circuit Judge

ATTEST:

s/Marcia M. Waldron

Clerk

Dated: April 17, 2015

CLW/JK/cc: All Counsel of Record

 

* The Third Circuit Court of Appeals gratefully acknowledges the Appellate Litigation

Clinic at Drexel University School of Law, Richard H. Frankel, Esq, and law students 

Mina Khalil and Christopher Bailes for their representation of appellant Carnell Gibbs 

before the Court.

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