HARRIS v. HUTCHINSON

No. 99-6175.

209 F.3d 325 (2000)

Percy Stanley HARRIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ronald HUTCHINSON, Warden, Maryland House of Corrections; J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Fred Warren Bennett, Bennett & Nathans, L.L.P., Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant. Ann Norman Bosse, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Michael E. Lawlor, Bennett & Nathans, L.L.P., Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant. J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

Before NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and SMALKIN, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Senior Judge HAMILTON and Judge SMALKIN joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

On July 22, 1998, Percy Harris filed this federal habeas petition to challenge his Maryland state court conviction. He filed his petition more than one year after enactment of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which established a one-year limitation period for filing...

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