Court Opinion

ID: 9494023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:26:52.326152+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:10.485788
License: Public Domain

SILER, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result in this case, that is, that the district court properly dismissed the petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 as untimely. However, I would leave to another day the decision of whether equitable tolling applies to the one-year period of limitation in habeas corpus cases and what the standards for equitable tolling-might be.
In this case, as explained in the majority opinion, even under the best scenario set out by the petitioner, equitable tolling under any arguable standard would not be appropriate. Thus, my conclusion is that, without deciding whether equitable tolling is applicable in habeas corpus cases, Dunlap’s case was correctly dismissed.