ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY *

Roughly two years after his conviction for federal felony drug offenses became final, Jesse Ramsey filed a motion seeking to have his conviction and sentence set aside. But, as the district court recognized, a federal habeas petitioner normally has only one year within which to seek collateral relief like this. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f). Of course, the deadline can be tolled for equitable reasons and so the district court gave Mr. Ramsey a chance to *605 file a response explaining why he should receive the benefit of equitable tolling — or, indeed, to explain any other reason why his claim shouldn’t be dismissed as time-barred. In the end, however, Mr. Ramsey failed to persuade the district court and that court dismissed his ease as untimely.

Mr. Ramsey now seeks to appeal this holding. To do so, he must first obtain a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). And to do that, he must show “jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the district court was correct in its procedural ruling.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000); 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2).

This much we cannot say Mr. Ramsey has accomplished. In his submission to this court, he insists that he failed to file within the one-year statute of limitations because his attorney never returned his phone calls and because he was led to believe he had more time by other prisoners. Though Mr. Ramsey argues that this entitles him to equitable tolling, our precedent requires us to hold otherwise. See Johnson v. Jones, 502 Fed.Appx. 807, 809 (10th Cir. 2012) (rejecting petitioner’s request for equitable tolling based on his attorney’s failure to file appeal after petitioner instructed him to). Mr. Ramsey’s request for leave to proceed informa pau-peris is granted, but his request for a COA is denied and this appeal is dismissed.