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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LANCE IAN OSBAND,

Petitioner,

v.

STEVEN W. ORNOSKI, Acting Warden of San

Quentin State Prison,

Respondent.

CIV S-97-0152 WBS KJM

CAPITAL CASE

REVISED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

Good cause appearing, the undersigned adopts the modifications suggested in the parties’

May 24, 2006 Joint Statement Regarding Proposed Modification to Protective Order. The August

8, 2000 protective order is hereby replaced with the following:

1. All documents produced to respondent pursuant to respondent’s motion to discover trial

counsel’s file and the mental health examinationsofDrs. Yarvis and Hutchinson, prepared

at trial counsel’s request in preparation for trial, shall be deemed to be confidential. These

documents may be used only by representatives from the Office of the California Attorney

General and may be used only for purposes of any proceedings incident to the petition for

writ of habeas corpus pending before this Court. Disclosure of the contents of the

documents and the documents themselves may not be made to any other persons or

agencies, including any law enforcement or prosecutorial personnel or agencies without

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an order from this Court. This order shall continue in effect after the conclusion of the

habeas corpus proceedings and specifically shall apply in the event of a retrial of all or any

portion of petitioner’s criminal case.

2. For purposes of preparing for and conducting the evidentiary hearing, paragraph 1 is

modified as follows: 

(a) Respondent may take the deposition of Petitioner’s trial counsel and/or any

investigators who worked on their behalf; 

(b) alternatively, Respondentmayconductinterviews with Petitioner’s trial counsel

and/or trial investigator(s) provided that the entire interview is tape- or videorecorded and the recording served on Petitioner at least two (2) weeks prior to

the evidentiary hearing and lodged with the court under seal at the time of the

evidentiary hearing;

(c) at such a deposition or recorded interview, Respondent may show documents

contained in trial counsel’s file to the trial attorney or their trial investigator who

is being deposed or interviewed; 

(d) Respondent may show transcripts of interviews to the individual who was the

subject of the interview for the purpose of refreshing the individual’s prior

recorded recollection. 

(e) Except as provided in paragraph 2(c) and 2(d), Respondent shall not show any

documents from trial counsel’s files to any individual without prior

authorization of the Court on motion pursuant to ten (10) days’ notice filed and

served on counsel for Petitioner. Petitioner may file and serve opposition, if

any, five (5) days after service of the motion. Any reply by Respondent may be

filed and served two (2) days after service of any opposition. The parties agree

that the court may issue an order on the motion without the necessity of a

hearing. All filings will be under seal. 

The only pre-hearing communications between trial counsel or trial

investigators and Respondent regarding the trial representation of Petitioner

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shall be those described in this paragraph. As with all documents produced to

Respondent, the transcripts of depositions and/or recordings of interviews, the

information contained therein, or derived therefrom shall be sequestered in the

manner described in paragraph 1, supra.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: June 14, 2006.

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UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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