SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a question of first impression in this circuit. It turns on the correct interpretation of the tolling provision, 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), established by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214.
The problem is easily explained. The court below held that a state-court post-conviction motion to reduce an imposed sentence, in the nature of a plea for discretionary...
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