Harlan Causey, Louisiana prisoner # 98397, was convicted by a jury of simple possession of cocaine and simple possession of marijuana. State v. Causey, 752 So.2d 287, 289 (La.Ct.App. 2000). The trial court adjudicated Causey as a third felony offender and sentenced him to life imprisonment without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence. Id. Causey filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition challenging that conviction and sentence. Causey now appeals the district court’s dismissal of his § 2254 petition as time barred. Causey argues that the district court erred in finding that he did not place his state certiorari petition in the prison mail on or before February 25, 2000, the deadline for filing. Although Causey challenges the reliability of the state’s evidence of the date of filing, he has not shown that the district court clearly erred in its factual finding. See Alexander v. Cockrell, 294 F.3d 626, 628 (5th Cir. 2002).

Causey’s equitable tolling argument is beyond the scope of remand and therefore is not before this court. Nonetheless, Causey has not shown the “rare and exceptional circumstances” necessary to warrant equitable tolling. See Felder v. John *388 son, 204 F.3d 168, 170-71 (5th Cir. 2000) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).

AFFIRMED.