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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This  week’s edition is now available: The Supreme Court’s holding in Albert Holland v. Florida leads off this edition.  The headnote to the case places the holding well when it notes that  “Holland diligently pursued his rights by writing [counsel] numerous letters seeking crucial information and providing direction, by repeatedly requesting that [counsel] be removed from his case, and by filing his own pro se habeas petition on the day he learned his AEDPA filing period had expired.”  Despite his diligence the district court denied relief and the Court of Appeals applied the AEDPA’s one year statute of limitations a little to rigidly. On these facts, therefore, a remand is necessary for further evaluation as to the applicability of equitable tolling...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).