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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH MARTIN DANKS

Petitioner,

v.

RON BROOMFIELD, Warden of California 

State Prison at San Quentin,

Respondent.

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Case No. 1:11-cv-00223-JLT

DEATH PENALTY CASE

SCHEDULING ORDER FOLLOWING 

EXHAUSTION PROCEEDINGS

The court, having reviewed the parties’ joint post-exhaustion status conference statement

filed on March 16, 2022, and the record, sets the following schedule: 

1. Petitioner, by not later than June 4, 2022, shall file in the United State Supreme 

Court, a petition for writ of certiorari to the California Supreme Court regarding 

its January 5, 2022, denial of his petition for review. Petitioner shall promptly file 

in this proceeding a notice of final disposition of the certiorari petition. 

2. Respondent, by not later than ninety (90) days from petitioner’s filing in this 

proceeding of the notice of disposition of the certiorari petition, shall file either a 

responsive pleading to the federal petition other than an answer, or an answer to 

the federal petition in conformance with Rule 5(b) of the Rules Governing § 2254 

1 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), Ron Broomfield, Warden of San Quentin 

State Prison, is substituted as respondent in place of his predecessor wardens.

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Cases. 

3. If respondent files any responsive pleading, other than an answer, then petitioner 

shall file his opposition by not later than sixty (60) days from the filed date of the 

responsive pleading, with respondent filing his reply by not later than forty-five 

(45) days from the filed date of the opposition. Otherwise, petitioner shall file 

any reply to the answer by not later than sixty (60) days from the filed date of the 

answer. 

The court will provide further scheduling in a subsequent order. The parties are advised 

that any motion(s) for discovery, expansion of the record, and/or evidentiary hearing will be 

addressed only after the court’s §2254(d) analysis of the federal claims.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 4, 2022 

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