The following excerpt is from Clark v. Swarthout, No. 2:12-cv-1365-KJM-EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2013):
There is no statutory tolling of the limitations period "from the time a final decision is issued on direct state appeal [to] the time the first state collateral challenge is filed . . . ." Nino v. Galaza, 183 F.3d 1003, 1006 (9th Cir. 1999). However, once a petitioner properly files a state post-conviction application the period is tolled, and remains tolled for the entire time that
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