• Smith v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Andrew P. Gordon, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judges, and Terrence Berg,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan M. Kirshbaum (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender; Rene L. Valladares, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Wilson (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-16967

    State court's filing of amended judgment reinstating prior conviction constituted "new judgment" for purposes of AEDPA statute of limitations on federal habeas petition (Reinhardt, J.)