Case Name: Jason GERAY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William MUNIZ, Warden Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-02-28
Citations: 678 F. App'x 607
Docket Number: No. 15-16865
Parties: Jason GERAY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William MUNIZ, Warden Respondent-Appellee
Judges: Before: TASHIMA and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and ADELMAN, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 678
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
Jason GERAY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William MUNIZ, Warden Respondent-Appellee
No. 15-16865
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted February 16, 2017 San Francisco, California
Filed February 28, 2017
Carmen Anamaria . Smarandoiu, FPDCA—Federal Public Defenders Office (San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant
Jill M. Thayer, Esquire, Deputy Attorney General, AGCA—Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, Samuel P. Siegel, California Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent-Appellee
Before: TASHIMA and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and ADELMAN, District Judge.
The Honorable Lynn S. Adelman, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jason Geray appeals the district court's dismissal of his habeas corpus petition as untimely, arguing that he was entitled to equitable tolling of the one-year filing deadline. .We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(a) and affirm.
1. Geray seeks equitable tolling based on his mental impairment, but he failed to show that he was unable to understand the need to timely file or that it was impossible for him to timely file. Bills v. Clark, 628 F.3d 1092, 1099-1100 (9th Cir. 2010). As the district court found, that impairment manifested primarily in assaultive behavior, rather than impaired thought process, and did not prevent Geray from filing a variety of documents in the state courts in 2011 and 2012. Yeh v. Martel, 751 F.3d 1075, 1078 (9th Cir. 2014). And, because the record was "amply developed" regarding Geray's mental impairment, the district court was not obligated to hold an evidentiary .hearing. Roberts v. Marshall, 627 F.3d 768, 773 (9th Cir. 2010).
2. Although attorney abandonment can warrant equitable tolling, Rudin v. Myles, 781 F.3d 1043, 1055 (9th Cir. 2015), the district court correctly found Geray only entitled to equitable tolling from January 18 to April 13, 2011, when he realized his lawyer was not going to file a direct appeal. The failure of Geray's trial counsel to perfect a direct appeal did not prevent Geray from filing a habeas corpus petition. See Randle v. Crawford, 604 F.3d 1047, 1058 (9th Cir. 2010).
3. Nor has Geray shown that he could not timely file because he was placed in administrative segregation and lacked access to certain state court records. See Ramirez v. Yates, 571 F.3d 993, 998 (9th Cir. 2009); Waldron-Ramsey v. Pacholke, 556 F.3d 1008, 1013-14 (9th Cir. 2009).
4.Geray argues that the state courts affirmatively misled him regarding the procedures for post-conviction relief, but he waived this argument by failing to raise it below. Smith v. Richards, 569 F.3d 991, 995 (9th Cir. 2009).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.