Mejia v. Terhune

53 F. App'x 479

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: December 20, 2002
• Docket: No. 01-55645; D.C. No. CV-99-11511-GHK(JWJ)
• Status: Published

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

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1. The district court erred by failing to “actually exercise[ ] its discretion” when it refused to consider petitioner’s claim, raised in his objections to the magistrate’s Report and Recommendation, that the prison library didn’t have a copy of AEDPA. Brown v. Roe, 279 F.3d 742, 745 (9th Cir.2002) (internal quotation marks omitted). As in Brown, we remand to the district court to develop the record and determine whether petitioner’s allegation, which could provide grounds for statutory or equitable tolling, see Whalem/Hunt v. Early, 233 F.3d 1146, 1148 (9th Cir.2000) (en banc), justifies tolling in this case.

2. We reject petitioner’s “actual innocence” argument, based on allegedly inconsistent verdicts, because he has failed to establish that he was, in fact, actually innocent. See Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327, 115 S.Ct. 851, 130 L.Ed.2d 808 (1995); Majoy v. Roe, 296 F.3d 770, 775-76 (9th Cir.2002).

REVERSED and REMANDED.

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