Baudizzon
Baudizzon v. Maddening
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Paul Virgil Baudizzon appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely. He argues that the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AED-PA”), 110 Stat. 1214 , should have been equitably tolled because the clerk at the California court of appeal misinformed his attorney of the date on which the California Supreme Court denied his petition for review of the court of appeal’s decision. His attorney relied on the information provided by the clerk and miscalculated the expiration of the statute of limitations period. We review de novo a district court’s dismissal of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on statute-of-limitations grounds. Patterson v. Stewart, 251 F.3d 1243, 1245 (9th Cir.2001).
AEDPA’s one-year statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling if there are “extraordinary circumstances” beyond the petitioner’s control. Calderon v. United States Dist. Court (Kelly), 163 F.3d 530 , 541 (9th Cir.1998) (en banc). Attorney negligence, such as the miscalculation of AEDPA’s limitations period, does not constitute “extraordinary circumstances” warranting…