9th Cir.;
12-55307

The court of appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a state prisoner’s federal habeas petition and remanded. The court held in an en banc opinion that a California state prisoner might be entitled to equitable tolling of his deadline to file a federal habeas petition where he waited fourteen months before inquiring about the status of his state habeas petition, if he could show that the state supreme court had denied his state petition without notice.