Evans v. Chavis

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2006-01-10

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*202 Justice Stevens, concurring in the judgment. Today the Court holds that, in the absence of a clear statement by a California state court that a petition for habeas corpus was timely or untimely, a federal court “must itself examine the delay in each case” to determine whether the filing “was made within what California would consider a ‘reasonable…

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