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| Beed v. Callahan
Beed v. Callahan
Carl Edward Beedv.Charles Callahan
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THIS ACTION SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED AS UNTIMELY
On November 25, 2014, [1] Carl Edward Beed (“Petitioner”), a California state prisoner proceeding pro se, constructively filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody (the “Petition”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. However, the Petition appears to be untimely on its face.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”), which effected amendments to the federal habeas statutes, applies to the instant Petition because Petitioner filed it after AEDPA’s effective date of April 24, 1996. Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320, 336, 117 S.Ct. 2059, 2068, 138 L.Ed.2d 481 (1997). The AEDPA altered federal habeas litigation by imposing a specific time limit on the filing of federal habeas petitions. Calderon v. United States District Court (Beeler), 128 F.3d 1283, 1286 (9th Cir. 1997), overruled in part on other grounds, Calderon v. United States District Court (Kelly V), 163 F.3d 530, 540 (9th Cir. 1998). By creating the AEDPA limitations period, Congress intended to “‘halt the unacceptable delay which ha[d] developed in the federal habeas process.’” Calderon v. United States District Court (Kelly III), 127 F.3d 782, 785 (9th Cir. 1997) (citation omitted), overruled in part on other grounds, Kelly V, 163 F.3d at 540.
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1), as amended, state prisoners have only one year in which to file their federal habeas petitions. The one-year limitations period prescribed by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) begins to run from the latest of:
28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)-(D). The applicable limitations period here is that set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A).
As indicated above, a petitioner ordinarily has one year from the date that his conviction becomes final to file a federal habeas petition. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). A case becomes final with “the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review.” Id.
In this case, Petitioner was sentenced on February 3, 2011. The Petition states Petitioner did not file a direct appeal of his conviction. Hence, Petitioner’s conviction became “final” under section 2244(d)(1)(A) sixty days later—the time available for filing a direct appeal under California Rule of Court 8.308—on April 4, 2011. Thus, under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1), the limitations period began to run the next day on April 5, 2011 and expired one year later, on April 3, 2012. The instant Petition was not constructively filed until November 25, 2014. Therefore, the instant Petition is untimely by over two years, absent tolling.
The AEDPA provides a statutory tolling provisi on that suspends the limitations period for the time during which a “properly filed” application for post-conviction or other collateral review is “pending” in state court. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2); Bonner v. Carey, 425 F.3d 1145, 1148 (9th Cir. 2005). However, the Supreme Court has explained that if a state habeas petition is not timely filed under the applicable state law, it is not “properly filed” and will not toll the AEDPA limitations period. See Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408, 417, 125 S.Ct. 1807, 161 L.Ed.2d 669 (2005). On collateral review, “intervals between a lower court decision and a filing of a new petition in a higher court, ” when reasonable, fall “within the scope of the statutory word ‘pending, ’” thus tolling the limitations period. Carey v. Saffold, 536 U.S. 214, 223, 122 S.Ct. 2134, 153 L.Ed.2d 260 (2002).
Here, Petitioner appears to have filed six state applications for post-conviction review: (1) a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the California Court of Appeal on December 27, 2011, which was denied on January 5, 2012; (2) a motion to file a belated notice of appeal in the California Court of Appeal on January 30, 2012, which was denied on February 2, 2012; (3) a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on May 30, 2013, which was denied on June 4, 2013; (4) a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on October 28, 2013, which was denied on November 12, 2013; (5) a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the California Court of Appeal on January 30, 2014, which was denied on February 5, 2014; and (6) a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the California Supreme Court on April 1, 2014, which was denied on June 11, 2014. Even assuming that these applications were properly filed and that Petitioner is therefore entitled to statutory tolling for the short periods these applications were pending, the instant Petition would still be untimely by over two years. Furthermore, the latter four petitions filed in 2013 and 2014 cannot be a basis for statutory tolling in any case because the statute of limitations would have expired p ...