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BOLARINWA v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 08-0832-pr.

593 F.3d 226 (2010)

Senora L. BOLARINWA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Elizabeth WILLIAMS, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 28, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore S. Green, Green & Willstatter, White Plains, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Ashlyn Dannelly, Assistant Attorney General (Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, Roseann B. MacKechnie, Deputy Solicitor General for Criminal Matters, of counsel), for Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Attorney General, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: KATZMANN and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, STANTON, District Judge.

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:

This case calls upon us to determine whether mental illness can serve as a ground for equitable tolling of the one-year statute of limitations for filing habeas petitions prescribed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA"). See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). We hold that it can. In addition, we find that the district court properly granted Petitioner-Appellant's motion for an extension of time to file a notice of...

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