DocketNumber: 98-10426
Filed Date: 1/3/2000
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 12/21/2014
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT _____________________ No. 98-10426 Summary Calendar _____________________ TERRY LEWIS MOREAU, Petitioner-Appellant, versus GARY L. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION, Respondent-Appellee. _________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1:97-CV-240) _________________________________________________________________ January 3, 2000 Before SMITH, BARKSDALE, and PARKER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:* Terry Lewis Moreau, Texas prisoner no. 394973, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his28 U.S.C. § 2254
petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In concluding that Moreau’s petition was time-barred, the district court did not have the benefit of our court’s recent decision in Villegas v. Johnson,184 F.3d 467
, 469- 70 (5th Cir. 1999) (a state habeas application is “properly filed” for purposes of triggering the tolling provisions as long as it * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4. conforms to the state’s applicable procedural filing requirements). Under Villegas, the28 U.S.C. § 2244
(d) limitations period was tolled by the pendency of Moreau’s fourth state habeas petition. Accordingly, the judgment of dismissal is VACATED and the case is REMANDED to the district court for further proceedings in the light of Villegas. VACATED and REMANDED 2