Case Name: Hugo C. ISRAEL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gregory SMITH and Nevada Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-03-29
Citations: 472 F. App'x 624
Docket Number: No. 10-17458
Parties: Hugo C. ISRAEL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gregory SMITH and Nevada Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 472
Pages: 624–625

Head Matter:
Hugo C. ISRAEL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gregory SMITH and Nevada Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 10-17458.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted March 12, 2012.
Filed March 29, 2012.
Ryan Norwood, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Las Vegas, NV, for Petitioner-Appellant.
Daniel M. Roche, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, AGNV-Office of the Nevada Attorney General, Carson City, NV, for Respondents-Appellees.
Before: NOONAN, McKEOWN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Hugo Israel Cahuec ("Israel") appeals the district court's dismissal of his habeas corpus petition as untimely.
Israel asserts that his actual innocence excuses his untimely petition. The district court dismissed this argument as foreclosed by Lee v. Lampert (Lee I), 610 F.3d 1125 (9th Cir.2010). The panel opinion in Lee I is no longer circuit precedent, see 9th Cir. R. 35-3, and was superseded by the en banc opinion issued in Lee v. Lampert (Lee II), 653 F.3d 929, 932 (9th Cir. 2011) (en banc), which recognized an equitable exception to the AEDPA's limitations period based on a credible showing of actual innocence. "An actual innocence exception to the limitations provisions does not foster abuse or delay, but instead recognizes that in extraordinary cases, the societal interests of finality, comity, and conserving judicial resources must yield to the imperative of correcting a fundamentally unjust incarceration." Lee II, 653 F.3d at 935 (quoting Murray v. Carrier, 477 U.S. 478, 495, 106 S.Ct. 2639, 91 L.Ed.2d 397 (1986)) (internal quotation marks omitted). Israel is entitled to an opportunity to make a credible showing of actual innocence.
Israel's other argument for tolling — his alleged inability to obtain language assistance — fails. He was able to get such assistance in filing a state petition. No reason appears why he could not have done as much to file a federal petition.
Israel's motion to file a supplemental reply brief is GRANTED.
We REVERSE the district court's dismissal for untimeliness and REMAND for a determination of actual innocence under Lee II, 653 F.3d 929.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.