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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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1 According to the Supreme Court docket and other pleadings

before this Court as well, the Court understands that the state

petition actually was filed on May 6, 2003.

* Jill L. Brown is substituted for her predecessor, Thomas Goughenour

as Warden of San Quentin State Prison, pursuant to Federal Rule of

Civil Procedure 25(d).

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WARD FRANCIS WEAVER, JR. )

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Petitioner, )

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vs. )

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Jill L. Brown, as Warden of )

San Quentin State Prison,* )

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Respondent. )

_____________________________ )

Case No. CIV. F-02-5583 AWI

DEATH PENALTY CASE

SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER RE: QUARTERLY

STATUS REPORTS

By order entered March 16, 2004, this Court directed Petitioner

Ward Francis Weaver, Jr. (“Weaver”) to file quarterly status reports

advising the Court of the progress of state proceedings while his

federal petition is held in abeyance. Weaver was directed to file the

first quarterly status report within 10 court days of the filing of

the March 16, 2004 order, that is March 30, 2004. 

Weaver timely filed his first status report on March 30, 2004

advising the Court that he filed his state post-conviction petition

in state court on May 3, 2003,1 that he filed a motion for postconviction discovery pursuant to Penal Code § 1054.9 on August 1,

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2 The Supreme Court docket indicates that Weaver’s reply was

filed on October 14, 2003.

3 Based on the directive that Weaver file quarterly status

reports, the May 28, 2004 report was a month early.

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2003, that the Warden filed an opposition to this motion on September

12, 2003, and that Weaver filed a reply to the Warden’s opposition on

October 10, 2003.2 In Weaver’s second status report, filed May 28,

2004,3 he advised the Court that the California Supreme Court denied

his discovery motion without prejudice on April 14, 2004 to filing or

refiling the motion in the Kern County Superior Court. 

Weaver’s third status report, filed July 30, 2004, his fourth

report, filed January 24, 2005, his fifth report, filed April 1, 2005,

and second fifth report filed, May 23, 2005 are all identical. They

report: “Since the last status report, no further proceedings have

taken place.”

Based on the fact that Weaver has not informed the Court of any

follow up on the invitation of the California Supreme Court to file

or refile his discovery motion in the Kern County Superior Court, the

Court is concerned that he is not actively pursuing his claims in the

state exhaustion petition. To the extent Weaver wishes to conduct

post-conviction discovery in state court, he either has not availed

himself to the procedures adopted for that purpose or he has not

advised this Court of the progress of those proceedings.

In light of the foregoing, Weaver is directed to file a status

report regarding all proceedings in state court, including discovery

proceedings in the superior court, within five court days of the entry

of this order, that is June 1, 2005. That status report will be

entitled “Sixth Status Report.” Thereafter, every three months, on

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the first day of the month (the second, third, or fourth day if the

first day falls on a holiday, a weekend, or a holiday weekend), Weaver

shall file regular quarterly status reports giving a full report of

state proceedings.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 25, 2005 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

c508d4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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