Holiday
Holiday v. Mueller
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Holiday’s § 2254 petition, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and insufficiency of the evidence claims, was dismissed by the district court as time barred under the one-year statute of limitations contained in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (d). He appeals, contending that his gateway claim of actual innocence pres *637 ents an exception to the statute of limitation. This circuit has not heretofore decided the issue raised by Holiday and we see no need to do so in this case. See Majoy v. Roe, 296 F.3d 770, 777 (9th Cir.2002). To establish a gateway claim of actual innocence, Holiday “must show that in light of all the evidence ... ‘it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have found petitioner guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” Carriger v. Stewart, 132 F.3d 463, 478 (9th Cir.1997) (en banc) (quoting Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 , 115 S.Ct. 851 , 130 L.Ed.2d 808 (1995)). Holiday’s argument that the evidence against him was “thin,” in that it showed only that Holiday and two other men approached the victim, that a ten-year-old girl saw a “shine” pass among the three men, that the victim raised…