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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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MCBREEN & SENIOR

David A. Senior (State Bar No. 108579)

1880 Century Park East

Suite 1450

Los Angeles, California 90067

Telephone: (310) 552-5300

Attorneys for Petitioner

MILTON OTIS LEWIS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MILTON OTIS LEWIS,

 

 Petitioner, 

 vs. 

 

 

JEANNE WOODWARD, Warden, 

 

 Respondent. 

 

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CASE NO. CIV-S-02-0013 FCD GGH DP

STIPULATION FOR CONTINUANCE OF

SUBMISSION OF EXPERT

DECLARATIONS PURSUANT TO THE

COURT’S JUNE 14, 2007 ORDER; ORDER

DEATH PENALTY CASE

WHEREAS the Court’s order dated June 14, 2007, reasonably will require: (1)

counsel for petitioner to meet and consult with various mental health professionals; (2)

the scheduling and administration of indicated examination(s) of petitioner at San

Quentin State Prison to enable the mental heath professionals to address the full scope of

the inquiry ordered by the Court; (3) the review of voluminous social history documents

and other clinical data by the mental health professionals; and (4) the preparation of

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formal evaluation(s) to include the rendering of opinions necessary to provide the

chronology outlined by the Court; and

WHEREAS counsel’s prompt inquiries into the matter have informed counsel that

it will not be possible to conduct an examination of petitioner in the testing facilities at

San Quentin State Prison until the week of July 10-13, 2007, at the earliest; and

WHEREAS petitioner’s counsel have made initial inquiries into the foregoing and

have been informed that professional commitments scheduled prior to the issuance of the

Court's June 14, 2007 order will preclude the availability of the required expert services

necessary to complete the foregoing-described tasks in the time allotted by the Court’s

order; and

WHEREAS these previously scheduled professional commitments are in many

instances outside the State of California, further hindering counsel’s ability to coordinate

and complete the tasks in the time required by the Court’s order; and include obligations

to perform mental health evaluations in other capital cases as well as to provide expert

testimony in other competency proceedings; and

WHEREAS co-counsel for petitioner, whose mental health expertise will be

reasonably necessary to the effective and meaningful consultation with petitioner’s

mental health professional expert witnesses, will not be available to work on petitioner’s

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case during the last week in June and second week in July due to his previous

commitments to address an International Congress on Mental Health and the Law in

Padua, Italy, and a national death penalty seminar in Washington, D.C.; and 

WHEREAS petitioner’s counsel has reserved the testing facility at San Quentin

State Prison for clinical testing commencing on July 19 and 20, 2007 when the facilities

and mental health professionals are first available; and

WHEREAS the foregoing demonstrates GOOD CAUSE for the same, 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties through their respective

attorneys of record that petitioner be provided an extension of time to file expert

declarations required by this Court’s order dated June 14, 2007 through and including

August 9, 2007.

DATED: June 20, 2007 MCBREEN & SENIOR

BY: /s/David A. Senior 

 DAVID A. SENIOR

 Attorneys for Petitioner

 MILTON OTIS LEWIS

DATED: June 20, 2007 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF 

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

BY: /s/ Jeanne Wolfe 

 JEANNE WOLFE

 Attorneys for Respondent

 ROBERT AYERS, Warden

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 6/26/07 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 

 Hon. GREGORY G. HOLLOWS

 Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court

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