No. 22-7105

Jimmy Allen Roberts v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-03-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-access prison-library statute-of-limitations
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2023-05-25
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fourth Circuit's bright-line rule denying equitable tolling to North Carolina prisoners who lack access to legal resources violates the constitutional mandate established in Bounds v. Smith and reiterated in Lewis v. Casey

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : ue sTIONS PRESENTED? ee 6s) ISSVE? Me RoGEerts URGES THAT THE TNSTANT CASE TLL MINATES A CONTINVOUS FLOW OF MERLTORIoOUS, BUT TMPROVIDENTLY DRAFTEO, AND UNTIMELY FLLED HABEAS PETITIONS ARRIVING IN THe Fouvern Cerecurs Couetor Apegsis FromTHe Noary Cagoirna (NC) Fentear Covers. Its Flow oF Pererrous REPRESENT NC 3 TWENTY PlS YEAR CONSTRUCTIVE CONTEMPT For THe CoustiruriowAL MANOATE TssvEn BY THts Court Upon NC PER St ry Bounos v Smutty, 430 US O17, $2) B28 , AT ACr 144 ( 14771) 4ND REITERATEn tn LEwss v Casey, 51M US 343, 350, Le Ser 2174 (1496). NCS conremer For Bowes ¢ Lewes xs _ ANOS OTHER SovRCes CF LEGAL KNOWLED6E FROM Ali NC : _ PR1s0NS,(2) BARRING THE NC Supreme Court LroerRarys SALE OF LEGAL RESOURCES To NC Personers, (3) DEFUNDING __ ano

Docket Entries

2023-05-30
Petition DENIED.
2023-05-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/25/2023.
2023-03-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 24, 2023)

Attorneys

Jimmy Allen Roberts
Jimmy Allen Roberts — Petitioner
Jimmy Allen Roberts — Petitioner