McCollum

Summary

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed Johnnie McCollum’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition as untimely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. The court held that statutory tolling did not render the petition timely and that McCollum was not entitled to equitable tolling or an actual-innocence exception; it also declined to issue a certificate of appealability.