Case Name: Robert Howard RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Anthony C. NEWLAND; Glenn A. Mueller, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-06-10
Citations: 654 F. App'x 291
Docket Number: No. 12-17173
Parties: Robert Howard RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Anthony C. NEWLAND; Glenn A. Mueller, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before: KLEINFELD, RAWLINSON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 654
Pages: 291–291

Head Matter:
Robert Howard RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Anthony C. NEWLAND; Glenn A. Mueller, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 12-17173
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 16, 2016 San Francisco, California
FILED June 10, 2016
Saor E. Stetler, Esquire, Attorney, Law Offices of Saor E. Stetler, Mill Valley, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.
David Andrew Eldridge, AGCA-Office of the California Attorney General, Sacra- ' mentó, CA, for Respondents-Appellees.
Before: KLEINFELD, RAWLINSON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2)..

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Robert Richardson, who was convicted in California state court of first degree murder involving the personal use of a firearm, appeals the district court's order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 2253. We affirm.
1. We have already determined that Richardson is not entitled to statutory tolling under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2) because his state habeas petition was deemed untimely in state court and thus was not '"properly filed' for purposes of tolling AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations." Richardson v. Newland, 171 Fed.Appx. 156, 157 (9th Cir. 2006) (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2)). We decline Richardson's invitation to revisit that ruling.
2. Richardson is not entitled to equitable tolling because no " 'extraordinary circumstance stood in his way' and prevented timely filing" of his federal petition. Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649, 130 S.Ct. 2549, 177 L.Ed.2d 130 (2010) (quoting Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408, 418, 125 S.Ct. 1807, 161 L.Ed.2d 669 (2005)). California's indeterminate state habeas limitations regime may have prevented Richardson from being certain whether a state court would find his petition timely, but it did nothing to discourage him from filing that petition earlier. Had he done so, he would have .been able to file his federal petition within the one-year limitations period and "he would not now be facing any time problem, state or federal." Pace, 544 U.S. at 419, 125 S.Ct. 1807.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.