Case Name: Harlan CAUSEY, Petitioner-Appellant v. Burl CAIN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, RespondentAppellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-02-15
Citations: 265 F. App'x 387
Docket Number: No. 07-30038
Parties: Harlan CAUSEY, Petitioner-Appellant v. Burl CAIN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, RespondentAppellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 265
Pages: 387–388

Head Matter:
Harlan CAUSEY, Petitioner-Appellant v. Burl CAIN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, RespondentAppellee.
No. 07-30038
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Feb. 15, 2008.
Harlan Causey, Angola, LA, pro se.
Donna Rau Andrieu, District Attorney’s Office for the Parish of Orleans, Anne Morriss Dickerson, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent-Appellee.
Before REAYLEY, M. SMITH, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Harlan Causey, Louisiana prisoner # 98397, was convicted by a jury of simple possession of cocaine and simple possession of marijuana. State v. Causey, 752 So.2d 287, 289 (La.Ct.App.2000). The trial court adjudicated Causey as a third felony offender and sentenced him to life imprisonment without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence. Id. Causey filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition challenging that conviction and sentence. Causey now appeals the district court's dismissal of his § 2254 petition as time barred. Causey argues that the district court erred in finding that he did not place his state certiorari petition in the prison mail on or before February 25, 2000, the deadline for filing. Although Causey challenges the reliability of the state's evidence of the date of filing, he has not shown that the district court clearly erred in its factual finding. See Alexander v. Cockrell, 294 F.3d 626, 628 (5th Cir.2002).
Causey's equitable tolling argument is beyond the scope of remand and therefore is not before this court. Nonetheless, Causey has not shown the "rare and exceptional circumstances" necessary to warrant equitable tolling. See Felder v. John son, 204 F.3d 168, 170-71 (5th Cir.2000) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
AFFIRMED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.