SHARION AYCOCK, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on motion of Respondent Oktibbeha County pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d),
28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) provides:
28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) and (2).
Accordingly, unless the narrow exceptions of § 2244(d)(1)(B-D) apply, the AEDPA requires that a petitioner's federal habeas corpus petition be filed within one year of the date that the petitioner's judgment of conviction becomes final, subject to tolling for the period when a properly filed motion for post-conviction relief is pending in state court. See, e.g., Cantu-Tzin v. Johnson, 162 F.3d 295 (5
The Petitioner, Alice Davis, is in the custody of Mary Pippins, Warden of the Washington County Regional Correctional Facility in Greenville, Mississippi. Davis entered a guilty plea to one (1) count of sale of cocaine in the Circuit Court of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. On May 6, 2008, she was sentenced to serve twenty-four (24) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (Circuit Court No. 07-199-CR). (At that time, two (2) additional counts were retired to the files). By statute, there is no direct appeal from a guilty plea. See Miss. Code Ann. § 99-35-101.
If Davis filed a "properly filed" application for post-conviction relief ("PCR") as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2) on or before June 5, 2009, it would have tolled the limitations period. See Grillete v. Warden, 372 F.3d 765, 769 (5
Under the "mailbox rule," a Petitioner's pro se federal habeas petition is deemed filed on the date that she delivered the petition to prison officials for mailing to the district court. Coleman v. Johnson, 184 F.3d 398, 401, reh'g and reh'g en banc denied, 196 F.3d 1259 (5
The instant petition will thus be dismissed with prejudice and without evidentiary hearing as untimely filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). A final judgment consistent with this memorandum opinion will issue today.
According to the records of the Mississippi Supreme Court Clerk, Davis has never properly submitted her claims to the state's highest court for judicial review. "The exhaustion requirement of § 2254(b) ensures that the state courts have the opportunity fully to consider federal-law challenges to a state custodial judgment before the lower federal courts may entertain a collateral attack upon that judgment. Duncan v. Walker, 533 U.S. 167, 178-79, 121 S.Ct. 2120, 2127-28 (2001) (citing O'Sullivan v. Boerckel, supra). However, there is no opportunity available for the Petitioner to present her claims to the state court in which such claims would be deemed procedurally proper. See Miss. Code Ann. §99-39-29. Consequently, Davis has technically exhausted the claims in the instant petition and those claims are considered to be procedurally defaulted. See Jones v. Jones, 163 F.3d 285, 296 (5
When state remedies are rendered unavailable by the petitioner's own procedural default, federal courts are barred from reviewing those claims. Sones v. Hargett, supra; see also Magouirk v. Phillips, 144 F.3d 348, 360 (5