Cadet v. Secretary, FL Dep't of Corrections, No. 12-14518 (11th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePetitioner appealed the dismissal of his federal habeas petition and the court granted him a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether the district court improperly determined that his 28 U.S.C. 2254 habeas petition was time-barred based on its finding that he was not entitled to equitable tolling. In light of Maples v. Thomas, the court held that attorney negligence, however gross or egregious, did not qualify as "extraordinary circumstances" for purposes of equitable tolling; abandonment of the attorney-client relationship, such as may have occurred in Holland v. Florida was required. Because petitioner was not abandoned by his post-conviction attorney, he failed to establish the "extraordinary circumstances" necessary to warrant equitable tolling of the section 2244(d) limitations period. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment of the district court.
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