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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SALVADOR A. RODRIGUEZ,

Petitioner, No. C 04-2233 PJH

v. ORDER FOR SUPPLEMENTAL

BRIEFING BY APPOINTED 

COUNSEL

DERRAL ADAMS, Warden,

Respondent.

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On March 1, 2007, this court appointed counsel for petitioner Salvador Rodriguez

(“Rodriguez”), and on March 14, 2007, current counsel, Linda Fullerton, was appointed. 

Although Rodriguez’s June 7, 2004 federal habeas petition contained three claims for relief,

there is currently only one claim pending because the court dismissed one claim as noncognizable, and Rodriguez elected not to proceed on another unexhausted claim. In the

sole surviving claim, Rodriguez contends he received ineffective assistance of counsel

based on his trial counsel’s failure to assign an investigator to investigate the facts of his

case, a claim which has been detailed in letters in the file from a former investigator,

William Walter Foskett.

At the time counsel was appointed on March 14, 2007, the petition was already fully

briefed. However, as the court noted in its March 1, 2007 order, the “traverse” consisted of

the June 8, 2006 one and one-half page letter from Rodriguez, which does not provide the

court with much assistance in adjudicating the claim. 

Given the extremely brief traverse and the fact that counsel has now been

appointed, the court will afford Rodriguez, through his newly appointed counsel, an

opportunity to file a supplemental traverse addressing the claim at issue in this case. 

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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Rodriguez’s supplemental traverse shall be filed and served no later than 30 days from

the date of this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 26, 2007

______________________________

PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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