Bonner v. Carey, ___ F.3d ___ (9th Cir. Mar. 7, 2006) (California Superior Court denied state petition as untimely when it said that petitioner could have raised the claims in an earlier petition and that there "[wa]s no reason stated for any delay in this regard"; petition was thus never "properly filed" for purposes of the tolling provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996).
jurisdiction:
Ninth Circuit