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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD ANTHONY BREWER,

Petitioner, No. CIV S-06-0382 GEB GGH P

vs.

D.L. RUNNELS, Warden, et al.,

Respondents. ORDER

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The undersigned has reviewed the request for interim (hardship) payments by

petitioner’s attorney. The request, approved in part, seeks attorneys’ fees which are in excess of

that which would be considered reasonable under the circumstances.

Federal habeas corpus permits convicted defendants in finalized state criminal

proceedings to proceed in federal court to rectify errors of Constitutional magnitude, i.e., those

errors which fundamentally affect the fairness of state criminal proceedings. Federal habeas does

not lie to correct errors in state law or errors in general. Thus, when a petitioner files in federal

court, after comprehensive state appellate review, both on direct appeal and/or in state habeas,

the chances of finding a previously unasserted substantial error is remote. There is little need or

use in non-capital habeas corpus to pore over every line of both the clerks and reporters

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transcripts as one might do in seeking to set forth every error which might have transpired in the

trial.

The present request of $21,886.73, the vast majority of which has been accrued

because of state court record review (nearly every single page of the clerks and reporters

transcripts), is denied in part. The undersigned will subtract $10,000.00 from the above amount

and approve $11,886.73. 

DATED: 11/28/06

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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