Case Name: Larry HUDSON, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant v. Nathaniel QUARTERMAN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-09-01
Citations: 332 F. App'x 209
Docket Number: No. 08-10327
Parties: Larry HUDSON, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant v. Nathaniel QUARTERMAN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Before GARZA, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 332
Pages: 209–210

Head Matter:
Larry HUDSON, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant v. Nathaniel QUARTERMAN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 08-10327
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Sept. 1, 2009.
Larry Hudson, Jr., Beeville, TX, pro se.
Tommy Lee Skaggs, Office of the Attorney General Postconvietion, Litigation Div., Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.
Before GARZA, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Larry Hudson, Jr., Texas prisoner # 1218900, appeals the district court's dismissal, as time barred, of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, which he filed to challenge his jury trial conviction of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Hudson's conviction became final on December 27, 2005. On December 14, 2006, Hudson delivered his state habeas application to prison authorities for mailing. The application was filed in state court on December 28, 2006, and was denied on May 9, 2007. Hudson filed his § 2254 petition on May 19, 2007.
Hudson argues that he was entitled to equitable tolling of the limitations period on account of the fourteen-day delay between the date he submitted his state application for post-conviction relief to prison authorities for mailing and the date that the state habeas application was filed in court. He asserts that he would have filed his state habeas application earlier had he known that state authorities would "sit on" the application. Hudson contends that his delay in filing for state habeas relief was due to his attempts to obtain transcripts.
The one-year limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) is subject to equitable tolling "in rare and exceptional circumstances." Davis v. Johnson, 158 F.3d 806, 811 (5th Cir.1998). The doctrine "applies principally where the plaintiff is actively misled by the defendant about the cause of action or is prevented in some extraordinary way from asserting his rights." Coleman v. Johnson, 184 F.3d 398, 402 (5th Cir.1999) (internal quotation marks omitted). Equitable tolling "will not be granted if the applicant failed to diligently pursue his rights." Larry v. Dretke, 361 F.3d 890, 897 (5th Cir.2004). The applicant bears the burden of establishing that equitable tolling is warranted. Phillips v. Donnelly, 216 F.3d 508, 511 (5th Cir.), modified, on reh'g, 223 F.3d 797 (5th Cir.2000).
Hudson's demonstration of a two-week delay between the submission of his state habeas application for mailing and its filing in state court does not establish that he was actively misled by state authorities or that he was prevented in an extraordinary way from pursuing his rights. See Coleman, 184 F.3d at 402. Moreover, given that approximately eleven and one-half months of the limitations period elapsed prior to Hudson's delivering his state ha-beas application for mailing, Hudson fails to establish that he diligently pursued his rights. See Larry, 361 F.3d at 897. In view of the foregoing, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying equitable tolling. See Ott v. Johnson, 192 F.3d 510, 513 (5th Cir.1999).
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.