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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

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JERRY F. STANLEY,

Petitioner,

v.

WARDEN, San Quentin State Prison,

Respondent.

No. 2:95-CV-1500 JAM CKD

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER

On April 21, 2015, this court ordered these proceedings stayed and held in abeyance 

during the pendency of petitioner’s state exhaustion proceedings. (ECF No. 1012.) Petitioner 

has filed a status report describing complications in those proceedings. (ECF No. 1026.) The 

court will not repeat the series of events in state court. Suffice it to say that petitioner’s counsel 

attempted to initiate the state proceedings, the state court determined the state habeas petition 

should not be filed, and the state court initiated an automatic appeal from the superior court 

determinations regarding the retrospective competency proceeding. Petitioner seeks a 

determination from this court that the stay and abeyance of these federal proceedings should 

remain in place pending resolution of the state court appeal and any related state court habeas 

corpus proceeding. 

The current state court proceedings are not those contemplated by the parties or the court 

when it ordered the stay. (See ECF Nos. 1010, 1012.) However, petitioner’s state remedies 

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remain unexhausted. Both parties agree that these proceedings should remain stayed through the 

state appellate proceedings. (See ECF Nos. 1026, 1029.) This court agrees as well. These 

proceedings shall remain stayed through the conclusion of the state automatic appeal. At that 

time, the court will consider whether an extension of the stay is necessary to permit state court 

resolution of any collateral review proceedings.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that within thirty days of the date petitioner’s 

automatic appeal is final, petitioner shall file a status report which shall include a description of 

any further state court proceedings and argument in support of any request for maintenance of the 

stay and abeyance of these federal proceedings.

Dated: June 1, 2016

Stanley stay abey.or2

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CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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