Christie v. Deppisch

Seventh Circuit

Christie v. Deppisch

124 F. App'x 460

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

DecidedMarch 21, 2005

DocketNo. 04-3584

StatusPublished

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Christie v. Deppisch, 124 F. App'x 460 (7th Cir. 2005).

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ORDER

Wisconsin inmate Debra Christie petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging the adequacy of the notice she received in connection with a number of prison disciplinary proceedings. See Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 564, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974); State ex rel. Anderson-El v. Cooke, 234 Wis.2d 626, 610 N.W.2d 821, 826 (Wis.2000). The district court found that Christie had failed to exhaust her state remedies. See O’Sullivan v. Boerckel, 526 U.S. 838, 845, 119 S.Ct. 1728, 144 L.Ed.2d 1 (1999). She had filed a state-court habeas petition, but it was dismissed because habeas review is not the procedure under Wisconsin law for challenging a disciplinary conviction, see State ex rel. L’Minggio v. Gamble, 263 Wis.2d 55, 667 N.W.2d 1, 7 (Wis.2003) (disciplinary convictions must be challenged through certiorari, not habeas corpus), and her subsequent petition for review by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin was dismissed as untimely, see Wis. Stat. §§ 808.10 & 809.62(1) (30-day deadline for petitions for review). The district court held that Christie had proeedurally defaulted her claim both by not filing a timely petition for review and by failing entirely to seek certiorari review. It therefore denied relief.

Christie now argues that her petition for review by the Wisconsin supreme court should not have been considered untimely — that the court should have made allow[461]*461anee for the time it took prison officials to mail her petition after she delivered it to them. See State ex rel. Nichols v. Litscher, 247 Wis.2d 1013, 635 N.W.2d 292, 298 (Wis.2001) (establishing tolling rule similar to the “mailbox rule” of Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988)). But that claim, not having been presented to the Wisconsin court, is itself procedurally defaulted. See Edwards v. Carpenter, 529 U.S. 446, 452, 120 S.Ct. 1587,146 L.Ed.2d 518 (2000). In any event, Christie offers no excuse for her primary procedural lapse — her failure to seek certiorari review of her prison disciplinary cases. Because she did not make use of the remedy that state law provides — and it is too late for her to do so now — her § 2254 petition was properly denied.

AFFIRMED.

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ORDER

Wisconsin inmate Debra Christie petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging the adequacy of the notice she received in connection with a number of prison disciplinary proceedings. See Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 564, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974); State ex rel. Anderson-El v. Cooke, 234 Wis.2d 626, 610 N.W.2d 821, 826 (Wis.2000). The district court found that Christie had failed to exhaust her state remedies. See O’Sullivan v. Boerckel, 526 U.S. 838, 845, 119 S.Ct. 1728, 144 L.Ed.2d 1 (1999). She had filed a state-court habeas petition, but it was dismissed because habeas review is not the procedure under Wisconsin law for challenging a disciplinary conviction, see State ex rel. L’Minggio v. Gamble, 263 Wis.2d 55, 667 N.W.2d 1, 7 (Wis.2003) (disciplinary convictions must be challenged through certiorari, not habeas corpus), and her subsequent petition for review by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin was dismissed as untimely, see Wis. Stat. §§ 808.10 & 809.62(1) (30-day deadline for petitions for review). The district court held that Christie had proeedurally defaulted her claim both by not filing a timely petition for review and by failing entirely to seek certiorari review. It therefore denied relief.

Christie now argues that her petition for review by the Wisconsin supreme court should not have been considered untimely — that the court should have made allow[461]*461anee for the time it took prison officials to mail her petition after she delivered it to them. See State ex rel. Nichols v. Litscher, 247 Wis.2d 1013, 635 N.W.2d 292, 298 (Wis.2001) (establishing tolling rule similar to the “mailbox rule” of Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988)). But that claim, not having been presented to the Wisconsin court, is itself procedurally defaulted. See Edwards v. Carpenter, 529 U.S. 446, 452, 120 S.Ct. 1587,146 L.Ed.2d 518 (2000). In any event, Christie offers no excuse for her primary procedural lapse — her failure to seek certiorari review of her prison disciplinary cases. Because she did not make use of the remedy that state law provides — and it is too late for her to do so now — her § 2254 petition was properly denied.

AFFIRMED.

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