Sanchez

MEMORANDUM ***

Defendant Raul Segura Sanchez appeals the district court’s order denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus as untimely. Sanchez pled no contest to second-degree murder and did not appeal his sentence. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 , 1294(1), and 2253 and affirm.

This is a comeback case that we first considered three years ago when Sanchez appealed the district court’s decision to dismiss his habeas corpus petition as untimely. Sanchez v. Cambra, 34 Fed.Appx. 251, 253 (9th Cir.2002). We reversed and remanded for further development of the record on the issue of whether an alleged series of lockdowns and lack of legal assistance for non-English speaking inmates constituted extraordinary circumstances warranting equitable tolling of the statute of limitations. Id. at 254 .

On remand, the magistrate judge and the district court found that Sanchez was prevented from using the library due to lockdowns for, at most, ten days during the period the statute of limitations was running, and further, that Sanchez often didn’t show up the law library when he was granted access. These findings are not clearly erroneous. Riley v. Payne, 352 F.3d…