Woodhouse
Woodhouse v. Anglea
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 KEITH E. WOODHOUSE, Case No. 19-cv-04546-YGR (PR)
Petitioner, ORDER GRANTING RESPONDENT’S
MOTION TO DISMISS PETITION AS
v. UNTIMELY; AND DENYING
CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
PATRICK EATON, Acting Warden, Respondent.
Petitioner, a state prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Dkt. 1. Before the Court is Respondent’s motion to dismiss the instant petition as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)—the statute of limitations set by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”). Dkt. 10. Alternatively, Respondent argues that the sole claim in the petition is procedurally defaulted. Id. at 5-7. Having considered all of the papers filed by the parties, the Court GRANTS Respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition as untimely. I. BACKGROUND Following a jury trial, Petitioner was convicted of thirty counts of committing lewd or …