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Nature of Suit Code: 535
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Death Penalty
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Ptn for Writ of H/C - Stay of Execution

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN LEE HOLT,

 Petitioner,

 v.

KEVIN CHAPPELL, Warden Of San Quentin 

State Prison,

 Respondent.

Case No. 1:97-cv-06210-DAD-SAB

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER UPON STIPULATION REGARDING 

PETITIONER’S MEDICAL RECORDS AND 

RESPONDENT’S EXPERT’S 

PUBLICATIONS 

(Doc. No. 262)

Before the court is the stipulation of petitioner’s counsel, Robert M. Myers and Assistant 

Federal Defender Jennifer Mann, and respondent’s counsel, Deputy Attorneys General Sean M. 

McCoy and Peter W. Thompson, to an order 1) directing respondent to provide petitioner’s 

counsel with copies of petitioner’s medical and psychiatric records from May 1, 2015 to present, 

and 2) authorizing petitioner’s counsel to issue a subpoena for copies of noted articles by 

respondent’s designated expert, Dr. Marvin Firestone.

As to the records, the parties represent these are same types of records already produced 

by respondent pursuant to the court’s March 25, 2015 order (see Doc. No. 228), but generated 

after respondent’s production under that order. The parties represent the circumstances and 

justification for production noted in that order continue to exist and apply to the instant request. 

Based on the parties’ stipulated representations and for the reasons discussed in the March 25, 

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2015 order, the court finds good cause to grant the request. See Rule 6, Rules Governing 28 

U.S.C. § 2254 Cases; Rich v. Calderon, 187 F.3d 1064, 1068 (9th Cir. 1999) (discovery by 

habeas petitioner is available in the court’s discretion for good cause shown). 

As to the articles, the parties stipulate petitioner’s counsel should be authorized to issue a 

subpoena directing the custodian of record for the Northern California Psychiatric Society to 

provide copies of the four articles published in the Society’s Psychiatric Physician and listed in 

Dr. Firestone’s curriculum vitae. Based on the parties’ stipulated representations, the court finds 

good cause to authorize the subpoena. Id.; Fed. R. Civ. P. 45. 

Accordingly, 

1. Respondent Warden is directed to provide to petitioner’s counsel, Ms. Mann, 

within 45 days of the filed date of this order, copies of medical and psychiatric 

records of petitioner, John Lee Holt, CDCR # E-58200, for the period May 1, 

2015 to present;

2. Ms. Mann, within 30 days of receipt of the records, is directed to provide 

respondent’s counsel with copies thereof, provided that if there are any records 

that petitioner’s counsel withholds, petitioner’s counsel will submit copies of 

those records to the court under seal with a privilege log, a copy of which 

petitioner’s counsel also will provide to respondent’s counsel;

3. The records covered by this order shall be provided only to counsel for the parties 

and their designated representatives and solely for purposes incident to this 

proceeding, all copies of records provided hereunder shall be returned to the 

Warden, or their destruction certified in a writing served on the Warden, unless 

otherwise ordered by the court, not later than 30 days following the conclusion of 

the proceeding;

4. Petitioner’s counsel are authorized to issue a subpoena, pursuant to Rule 45 of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, directing the custodian of records for the 

Northern California Psychiatric Society to provide to petitioner’s counsel copies 

of articles in the Psychiatric Physician that Dr. Firestone listed in his curriculum 

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vitae, to wit:

Firestone, M.H., “Co-Pay or No Co-Pay – That is the Question,” 

Northern California Psychiatric Society, Psychiatric Physician, 

July-August 2012;

Firestone, M.H., “Confidentiality,” Northern California Psychiatric 

Society, Psychiatric Physician, May – June 2012;

Firestone, M.H., “Boundary Violations,” Northern California 

Psychiatric Society, Psychiatric Physician, March 2012; and

Firestone, M.H., “Introduction to Ethics,” Northern California 

Psychiatric Society, Psychiatric Physician, January 2012.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 23, 2016 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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