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Fourth Circuit: Evidentiary Hearing Required Where Prisoner’s Allegation of Mental Illness, if True, Is Sufficient to Demonstrate ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ Warranting Both Rule 60(b)(6) Relief and Tolling of Habeas SOL
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2024
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2024, page 48
Filed under:
New Trial Motions,
AEDPA,
Mental Health,
Statutes of Limitation and Laches,
Tolling of Statutes of Limitations and Laches.
Location:
Virginia.
by Douglas Ankney
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that an evidentiary hearing was required where Berman Justus, Jr.’s, allegation of mental illness, if true, was sufficient to demonstrate extraordinary circumstances warranting relief under Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and equitable tolling ...
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