Dixon v. Wachtendorf, No. 13-3193 (8th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePetitioner, convicted of first-degree felony murder, challenged the district court's dismissal of her 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for habeas corpus relief. The court concluded that, when the state post-conviction was no longer pending, petitioner waited another 363 days to file her federal petition for federal habeas corpus, making her current habeas petition untimely. Accordingly, the court denied the petition for habeas corpus relief.
Court Description: Prisoner case - habeas. District court did not err in dismissing Dixon's habeas petition as untimely.
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