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AEDPA Statute of Limitations Tolled
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1999, page 12
The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the one year statute of limitations in which to file a federal habeas corpus petition is a statute of limitation subject to tolling. In 1994 Frank Miller, a New Jersey state prisoner, was found guilty in a prison disciplinary hearing …
Filed under:
Transfers,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Court Access,
Legal Materials,
Limitations,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
New Jersey.
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