Valerie Campbell is a prisoner at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California. The District Court dismissed her federal petition for writ of habeas corpus for failure to file within the one year statute of limitations mandated by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). She appeals and we reverse.

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A jury convicted Alvin Clay of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, and four counts of money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957. The district court sentenced him to five months’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay $16,265.26 in restitution. Clay appeals, chal...   MORE>>

Tyjuan Develle Townsend appeals the 120-month sentence that the district court imposed after Townsend pleaded guilty to possessing more than three grams of cocaine base after having two or more final convictions for state felony drug offenses, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 844(a). Townsend argues tha...   MORE>>

Stanley Nelson, an Arkansas inmate convicted of discharging a firearm from a vehicle and sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment, appeals the district court's order dismissing his petition for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 as untimely. We granted Nelson's application for certificate of ap...   MORE>>

Michael Durham appeals the sentence of 151 months’ imprisonment he received from the district court after pleading guilty to knowingly receiving child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2). Durham contends the district court erred by applying a two-level enhancement for distributing ...   MORE>>

Aaron Anderson was found guilty of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B). At sentencing the district court imposed a two-level enhancement for possession of a dangerous weapon after a gun was found in a storage shed connected...   MORE>>

Timothy C. Washington appeals the district court’s denial of his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for (1) a reduction in sentence pursuant to Amendment 706 to the Sentencing Guidelines and (2) an evidentiary hearing so that the court could reduce his sentence further in consideration of the 18 U.S.C...   MORE>>

Ernest Cecil, formerly an officer of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (“MNPD”), was convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846; one count of aiding and abetting another to possess with intent...   MORE>>

On October 12, 2004, Columbus police officers Robert Vass and T. Pappas pulled up in a police cruiser to a group of people standing outside an affordable-housing complex owned by Community Properties of Ohio (“CPO”). Upon exiting the vehicle and moving toward the group, Vass recognized one of it...   MORE>>

Edward Pinchon was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of his adult male lover. Pinchon, who was 17-years old at the time of his arrest, was transferred from juvenile court to a state criminal court to be tried as an adult. After exhausting his direct app...   MORE>>