Opinion ID: 787651
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Heading: First Round of State Habeas Petitions

Text: 4 Chavis filed a habeas petition in Sacramento Superior Court on May 14, 1993, which was denied on the merits on July 30, 1993. Chavis filed a substantially similar petition in the California Court of Appeal on August 22, 1994, and that petition was denied on September 29, 1994. 5 AEDPA and the one-year statute of limitations for federal habeas petitions took effect on April 24, 1996. 6 On November 5, 1997, the California Supreme Court received Chavis's habeas petition. The Court denied the petition on April 29, 1998, without any comment or case citation. That decision became final on May 29, 1998.