Rouser

Rouser v. Pliler

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105 F. App'x 167
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 24, 2004No. 03-16463California368 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

California state prisoner William Rouser appeals pro se the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus as untimely. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 , and we affirm.

Rouser contends that his petition is timely because the 1-year period of limitation did not begin to run until August 2001, when he received an affidavit from his former cellmate, Marion Bradley, together with a copy of Bradley’s Rules Violation Report (“Bradley documents”). Because Rouser could have discovered the information contained in the Bradley documents at the time of his trial in 1995, and because no state-created impediment prevented their discovery, we conclude that the statute of limitations began to run when Rouser’s conviction became final in June 1998. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (d)(1)(A).

Rouser also contends that he is entitled to equitable tolling because the state’s failure to produce Bradley’s Rules Violation Report prior to his 1995 trial violates Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 , 83 S.Ct. 1194 , 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), and constitutes prosecutorial misconduct. Because we conclude that there was no Brady violation, see United…

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