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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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Case No. 11-CV-02458-LHK

ORDER RE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

DELANEY GERAL MARKS,

Petitioner,

v.

RON DAVIS, Acting Warden of California 

State Prison at San Quentin,

Respondent.

Case No. 11-CV-02458-LHK

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER RE CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE

The Court is in receipt of the parties’ joint case management statement in preparation for 

the case management conference scheduled to be held on August 13, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. Absent an 

extraordinary reason, the Court is not inclined to entertain Petitioner’s potential motion for leave 

to file a motion for reconsideration of the Court’s Order of June 25, 2015. 

The Court has also reviewed the Petition and other records in this matter. For the purposes 

of efficiency, and to avoid the need for oversize briefs, the Court hereby ORDERS the parties to 

meet and confer and submit a briefing schedule to resolve the record-based claims in the Petition.1

Furthermore, Jones v. Chappell, 31 F. Supp. 3d 1050 (C.D. Cal. 2014), which held that inordinate 

 

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The parties originally agreed that Petitioner would file a motion for evidentiary hearing 

on all claims; the Court finds that is not the most prudent way to proceed at this juncture.

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delay in California’s death system violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and 

unusual punishment, is currently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit. Since Jones may impact 

Petitioner’s penalty phase claims, the parties should first brief Petitioner’s record-based guilt

phase claims.

The parties’ proposed litigation schedule should be submitted to the Court no later than 

Tuesday, August 11, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 6, 2015

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LUCY H. KOH

United States District Judge

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