Supreme Court clerk’s designated mailing address via United States Postal Service express mail. The properly addressed application arrived at the proper address at 9:05 a.m. on the last day of the filing period, as shown by a Postal Service receipt. The Michigan Supreme Court, however, did not docket the application until the next day — one day after the end of the filing period — and rejected the application as time-barred. Nearly one year later, Ross filed his federal habeas petition. The district court dismissed the petition as time-barred, even though it would have been timely, had the Michigan Supreme Court accepted Ross’s application for leave to appeal, thus tolling the AEDPA statute of limitations. Evans v. Chavis, 546 U.S. 189, 197, 126 S.Ct. 846, 168 L.Ed.2d 684 (2006) (<HOLDING>). The district court reasoned that AEDPA’s
holding that properly filed application for statecourt discretionary review tolls aedpa limitations period holding that the aedpa statute of limitations is not jurisdictional holding that a properly filed motion to reconsider under colo rcrim p 35b tolls the oneyear limitations period holding that suit filed within six years of assessment tolls the limitation period indefinitely holding that the charge was timely when filed within the statute of limitations period even though served after the period