
    Daniel NARDELLO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Tom L. CAREY, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 03-16275.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted May 9, 2005.
    
    Decided May 13, 2005.
    Thomas Shelton, Esq., San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    Juliet B. Haley, Esq., AGCA — Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before: PREGERSON, CANBY, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Daniel Nardello appeals the district court’s judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we vacate and remand.

Because we conclude that the certificate of appealability was improvidently granted as to the constitutional issues, we dismiss those contentions for lack of jurisdiction. Cf. Phelps v. Alameda, 366 F.3d 722, 728 (9th Cir.2004).

In light of Pliler v. Ford, 542 U.S. 225, 124 S.Ct. 2441, 159 L.Ed.2d 338 (2004), we remand for the district court to determine in the first instance whether Nardello was affirmatively misled when his first section 2254 habeas petition was dismissed without prejudice even though his Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act statute of limitations had already expired, and if so, whether he is entitled to equitable tolling. See id. at 2447.

DISMISSED in part; VACATED AND REMANDED in part. 
      
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