Court Opinion

ID: 2676104
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-05-28 22:00:38.516462+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:28:44.790104
License: Public Domain

FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                            MAY 28 2014

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No. 12-17711

               Plaintiff - Appellee,             D.C. Nos. 1:09-cv-00549-HG
                                                           1:02-cr-00130-HG
  v.

HERMAN LEMUSU,                                   MEMORANDUM*

               Defendant - Appellant.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                             for the District of Hawaii
                    Helen W. Gillmor, District Judge, Presiding

                              Submitted May 13, 2014**

Before:        CLIFTON, BEA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.

       Herman Lemusu appeals pro se from the district court’s orders denying his

28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as untimely and his subsequent motion for

reconsideration. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.

       Lemusu contends that he is entitled to equitable tolling because he was

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
placed in administrative segregation, relied on inadequate legal assistance from a

fellow inmate, and was misled by the district court’s affirmative

misrepresentations. We review the district court’s equitable tolling decision de

novo. See United States v. Battles, 362 F.3d 1195, 1196 (9th Cir. 2004).

Lemusu’s claim to equitable tolling fails because he has not established that the

alleged impediments were “extraordinary circumstances” that prevented timely

filing of his section 2255 motion. See Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408, 418

(2005) (equitable tolling available where the petitioner shows “(1) that he has been

pursuing his rights diligently, and (2) that some extraordinary circumstance stood

in his way”).

      Lemusu contends that his actual innocence excuses his untimely filing.

Assuming this argument is properly before the court, it fails because Lemusu has

not demonstrated that, in light of new evidence, it is more likely than not that no

reasonable juror would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. See

McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S. Ct. 1924, 1928 (2013).

      Lemusu’s motion filed on March 11, 2013, requesting an expansion of the

certificate of appealability is denied. See 9th Cir. R. 22-1(e); Hiivala v. Wood, 195
F.3d 1098, 1104-05 (9th Cir. 1999) (per curiam).

      AFFIRMED.

                                          2                                    12-17711