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Timestamp: 2017-06-27 08:46:05
Document Index: 129589211

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2254', '§ 2244', '§ 636', '§ 2244', '§ 2254', '§ 2244', '§ 2244', 'art. 914', '§ 2244']

| Brewer v. Cain
Brewer v. Cain
KEITH BREWERv.N. BURL CAIN, WARDEN, Section ORDER AND REASONS
Before the Court is Keith Brewer's ("Petitioner") petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody.[1] The State of Louisiana filed a response.[2] The Magistrate Judge has issued a Report and Recommendation, wherein the Magistrate Judge agreed with the state, and recommended that the petition be dismissed with prejudice as untimely pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d).[3] Petitioner filed a timely objection to the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation.[4]
Accordingly and for the reasons enumerated below, IT IS ORDERED that Petitioner's Objection to the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation is OVERRULED; that the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation is ADOPTED; and, Petitioner's petition for federal habeas corpus review is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
Petitioner is a state prisoner incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana.[5] On January 24, 2007, Petitioner was convicted of aggravated burglary under Louisiana law.[6] On June 8, 2007, he was found to be a habitual offender and was sentenced as such to a term of fifty years imprisonment.[7]
In November of 2012, Petitioner filed the instant federal application seeking habeas corpus relief.[8] The state argues that Petitioner's federal application is untimely.[9] The Magistrate Judge agreed.[10] Petitioner objects and contends that, in denying the instant habeas petition as time-barred, "[t]he Magistrate Judge, however, disregards the fact that Mr. Brewer filed a Motion for Extension of Time in which the Louisiana Supreme Court granted and advised Mr. Brewer "[y]ou should send your application as soon as you are able, preferably within 60 days from the date of this letter."[11]
The Court now conducts the requisite de novo review of the aspects of the recommendation to which Petitioner objects. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C); see also Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(b).
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), codified as amended at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d), provides that a petitioner has one year within which to bring his habeas corpus claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, with this one year period commencing to run from the "latest of" either the date the petitioner's state judgment became final or the expiration of the time for seeking review. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(D)(1)(A)(West 2013), as amended by the AEDPA, P.L. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1220.
The statute of limitations does not run while a petitioner has a pending application for state post-conviction relief or other collateral review. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2). AEDPA does not, however, provide a new and full one-year statute of limitations once these applications are no longer pending. Flanagan v. Johnson, 154 F.3d 196, 198 (5th Cir.1998).
In this case, Petitioner was resentenced by the state district court on April 23, 2010.[12] Petitioner had "thirty days after the rendition of the judgment" to file a motion for an appeal. La. Code Crim. P. art. 914(B)(1). This period expired, and Petitioner's sentence became final on May 24, 2010. State v. Mims, 942 So.2d 70, 2006-1219 (La.App. 3 Cir. 11/2/06). Therefore, the limitations period began May 24, 2010.
The one-year federal limitations period under the AEDPA was tolled, after two hundred and thirty two days, by the filing of a post-conviction application with the state district court on January 12, 2011. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)((2). The application was denied on June 22, 2011.[13] Petitioner had thirty days, under Louisiana law, to seek review by the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. Louisiana Uniform Rules of the Courts of Appeal, Rule 4-3. Petitioner failed to file a writ application with that court, and the one-year federal limitations period resumed on July 22, 2011, unless further interrupted.[14] Melancon v. Kaylo, 259 F.3d 401, 406-07 (5th Cir. 2001).
While that application was pending, Petitioner also filed a motion to quash with the state district court on February 8, 2011.[15] The state district court denied that motion on March 14, 2011.[16] Subsequently, Petitioner's related writ application was denied ...