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Nature of Suit Code: 535
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Death Penalty
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS HOWARD LENART,

Petitioner,

v.

WARDEN, San Quentin State Prison,

Respondent.

No. 2:05-cv-1912 MCE CKD

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER

On December 9, 2015, the court held a status and scheduling conference. Lissa Gardner 

appeared for petitioner. Wesley Van Winkle participated by telephone for petitioner. Jesse Witt 

appeared for respondent. After considering the parties’ arguments and good cause appearing, IT 

IS HEREBY ORDERED as follows:

1. Within 90 days of the filed date of this order petitioner shall file a second amended 

petition. (See ECF No. 104.) 

2. Within 180 days of the filed date of this order, respondent shall file a Notice of 

Lodging and lodge with the court the state court record as set out below.

a. The lodged record shall meet the following requirements:

(i) It shall contain (a) transcripts of the state trial court proceedings; (b) 

appellant's and respondent's briefs on direct appeal to the California 

Supreme Court, and the opinion or orders of that Court; and (c) petitioner's 

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and respondent's briefs in any state court habeas corpus proceedings, and 

all opinions, orders and transcripts of such proceedings.

(ii) The entire record shall be Bate-stamped. Bate-stamp numbering shall be in 

the format AG00001, AG00002, etc. to distinguish it from other numbering 

systems in the record.

(iii) The entire record shall be scanned.

(iv) The entire record shall be converted to an OCR format.

(v) State sealed documents shall be lodged in paper form.

b. The Notice of Lodging shall be filed on the court’s electronic filing system. Each 

item of the state court record shall be lodged as an attachment to the Notice of 

Lodging. For each separate attachment, the Notice of Lodging shall identify the 

attachment number, the Bate-stamp numbers, and the name of that part of the 

record, including its internal pagination, if any. For example, if the first 

attachment contains the first 300 pages of the Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal, it 

would be identified in the Notice of Lodging as: “Attachment #1, AG00001-

AG00300 (CT 1-300).” The identical identifying information shall also be 

included as the docket title of each electronically lodged attachment to the Notice 

of Lodging. To the extent possible, each separate paper volume of the state court 

record shall be lodged as one attachment.

3. Within 60 days of the filing of the second amended petition, respondent shall file an 

answer.

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Dated: December 11, 2015

Lenart sch conf 2.or

 

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The court is not convinced that a traverse is necessary. After the answer is filed, the court will 

hold a status and scheduling conference to determine the next step in these proceedings. 

_____________________________________

CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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