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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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THOMSON & STETLER

Criminal Defense Attorneys

JAMES S. THOMSON

California SBN 79658

819 Delaware Street

Berkeley, California 94710

Telephone: (510) 525-9123

Facsimile: (510) 525-9124

JOLIE LIPSIG

Attorney at Law

California SBN 104644

1006 4th St., Suite 301

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 443-6995

Facsimile: (916) 443-7081

Attorneys for Petitioner

WILLIAM A. PROCTOR

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIAM A. PROCTOR, ) No. CIV-S-96-1401 DFL PAN

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Petitioner, )

) DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. )

)

JILL BROWN, Warden of California ) APPLICATION AND ORDER 

State Prison at San Quentin, ) FOR MODIFICATION OF 

) BRIEFING SCHEDULE

Respondent. )

______________________________ ___)

By Order issued June 3, 2005 this Court granted petitioner’s request to modify the

previously issued Scheduling Order. Pursuant to the modified schedule, petitioner’s Opposition

and Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment are currently due on September 30, 2005. 

Counsel for petitioner hereby request that the schedule be modified to provide them with

an additional ninety (90) days, or until December 30, 2005, in which to file their

Opposition and Cross-Motion. The modification is necessary for the following reasons: 

1. Counsel are unable to meet the September 30, 2005 deadline due to significant

pre-existing obligations in other cases.

2. On July 18, 2005, counsel for Mr. Proctor filed a 700 page Opening Brief in the

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automatic appeal of a capital case in California Supreme Court, People v. Tully, S030402. 

Both Ms. Lipsig and Mr. Thomson spent considerable time preparing the brief. 

3. Both Ms. Lipsig and Mr. Thomson also have separate obligations that prevent

them from meeting the current schedule. Mr. Thomson filed a reply brief in the Ninth

Circuit in Pope v White on August 1, 2005. He is also counsel in two complex, multidefendant federal capital trial cases pending in the Northern District, United States v.

Dennis Cyrus, Jr. and United States v, Don Johnson. Ms. Lipsig conducted extensive

discovery and filed on opposition to a motion to dismiss in an habeas corpus case pending

in the Eastern District, Fenenbock v. Director of Corrections. In addition, Ms. Lipsig is

now employed full-time at the Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD) and is in the

process of closing her private practice. Her obligations there prevent her from devoting a

substantial amount of time to the present case. 

4. Counsel for petitioner have contacted counsel for respondent, Brian

Smiley, to discuss the proposed modification. Mr. Smiley indicated that respondent has no

objection to this proposed modified schedule. 

For all the reasons stated above, petitioner requests that current briefing schedule be

modified as follows:

Petitioner’s Opposition to Respondent’s Motion for Summary Judgment and CrossMotion for Summary Judgment shall be filed by December 30, 2005; 

Respondent’s Reply to Petitioner’s Opposition, and Opposition to Petitioner’s

Motion for Summary Judgment shall be filed by March 1, 2006; and

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Petitioner’s Reply to Respondent’s Opposition shall be filed by May 1, 2006.

DATED: September 26, 2005

Respectfully submitted,

JAMES THOMSON

JOLIE LIPSIG

Attorneys for Petitioner

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: September 21, 2005.

 /s/ Peter A. Nowinski 

 United States Magistrate Judge

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DECLARATION OF SERVICE BY MAIL

Case Name: PROCTOR V. BROWN Case No.: Civ. S-96-1401 DFL PAN

I, the undersigned, declare as follows:

I am a citizen of the United States, over the age of 18 years and not a party to

the within action; my place of employment and business address is 1006 4th Street, Suite

301, Sacramento, California 95814.

On September 26, 2005, I served the attached

APPLICATION AND ORDER FOR MODIFICATION OF BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

 by placing a true copy thereof in an envelope addressed to the person(s) named below at

the address(es) shown, and by sealing and depositing said envelope in the United States

Mail at Sacramento, California, with postage thereon fully prepaid. There is delivery

service by United States Mail at each of the places so addressed, for there is regular

communication by mail between the place of mailing and each of the places so addressed.

Brian Smiley

Deputy Attorney General

1300 I Street

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94255-2550

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Signed on September 26, 2005 at Sacramento, California.

________________________

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