Melson v. Commissioner, No. 11-13512 (11th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePetitioner appealed the district court's dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 federal habeas corpus petition as untimely. Because petitioner failed to demonstrate that he exercised reasonable diligence in pursuing his federal remedies, he was not entitled to equitable tolling of the one-year statute of limitations. Consequently, the court need not address petitioner's argument pertaining to whether his attorneys' conduct constituted an "extraordinary circumstance." Accordingly, the court affirmed the dismissal of petitioner's federal habeas petition as untimely.
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