Opinion ID: 2995458
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Heading: Ill 2d 264, 273-74 (Ill. 1992). As with

Text: the New York statutes in Artuz, successive petitions in Illinois that fail to satisfy these conditions to relief will not be successful, but they have been properly delivered and accepted so long as the filing conditions have been met. Artuz, 531 U.S. at 11; see also Hardy v. Sec’y for the Dep’t. of Corr., 246 F.3d 1300, 1301-02 (11th Cir. 2001) (petition denied as successive under state law may be properly filed if it met state’s filing conditions); Dictado v. Ducharme, 244 F.3d 724, 726-27 (9th Cir. 2001) (petition dismissed under state statute barring successive petitions unless good cause is shown for not raising claims earlier may be properly filed); Emerson v. Johnson, 243 F.3d 931, 934-35 (5th Cir. 2001) (state habeas petitioner’s motion for reconsideration may be properly filed despite state statute barring such motions); Snow v. Ault, 238 F.3d 1033, 1034-35 (8th Cir. 2001) (petition denied as successive under state law may be properly filed). Because Illinois does not impose any filing preconditions for successive petitions, a successive petition that is later dismissed as procedurally barred is properly filed as long as it conforms to Illinois’ formal filing requirements. Here Smith’s second post-conviction petition satisfied those requirements, as reflected by the court’s acceptance of the petition and the docket sheet notation that the petition was filed. The second petition therefore tolled the one-year statute of limitations until December 1, 1999, the date when the Illinois Supreme Court denied leave to appeal the dismissal of that petition. See Gutierrez v. Schomig, 233 F.3d 490, 491-92 (7th Cir. 2000) (concluding that statute of limitations is not tolled under sec. 2244(d)(2) for the 90-day period during which certiorari could have been sought from the denial of state post-conviction relief). Because Smith filed his sec. 2254 petition on March 24, 2000, within a year of the state supreme court’s denial of leave to appeal, the petition was timely. We therefore VACATE the judgment of the district court and REMAND the case to the district court for further proceedings.