Opinion ID: 3028512
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Text: This matter comes on before the court on an appeal from an order entered on October 22, 2003, by the district court approving and adopting a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation and denying as untimely Frank G. McAleese’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus that he filed on March 2, 1998. In his petition, McAleese, a state prisoner currently confined at the State Correctional Institution at Albion, 2 Pennsylvania,1 challenges the September 2, 1995 decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (“PBPP”) 2 denying him parole and requiring that he participate in a sex offender treatment program. We are not concerned, however, with the merits of the PBPP decision as we granted a certificate of appealability solely on the question of “whether the District Court erred in dismissing [McAleese’s] habeas corpus petition as untimely.” The gravamen of McAleese’s argument is that the PBPP’s failure to turn over documents opposing his release that the Philadelphia District Attorney and a supervising judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas submitted to it tolled the limitations period under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”) to such an extent that his petition was timely. As a matter of convenience, we refer to the documents as if the district attorney submitted all of them. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the order of the district court.