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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

SECOND STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

Petitioner JOSEPH MARTIN DANKS and Respondent RON BLOOMFIELD, as 

Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, by and through their counsel of record, 

stipulate that a second protective order may be entered by the Court as follows (Doc. 97):

The parties agree that, in order to adequately litigate claims in the operative 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2254 habeas corpus petition (Doc. 28), Respondent requires access to a January 5, 1993 

Reporter’s Transcript of ex parte trial court proceedings on California Penal Code section 987.9 

expert funding, sealed in state court, which intrude upon matters heretofore protected by the 

attorney-client and attorney work product privileges.2 3

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

Prison, shall be substituted as Respondent in place of his predecessor wardens.

2 The January 5, 1993 Reporter’s Transcript is the subject of a pending request to seal documents in this 

proceeding. (Doc. 96.) 

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The parties agree that pursuant to Bittaker v. Woodford, 331 F.3d 715, 720 (9th Cir. 

2003), Petitioner has waived his attorney-client and work product privileges with respect to the

January 5, 1993 Reporter’s Transcript to afford Respondent the ability to prepare his answer to 

the petition.

The parties agree to the issuance of a protective order pursuant to Bittaker, 331 F.3d at 

717 n.1, and Lambright v. Ryan, 698 F.3d 808 (9th Cir. 2012), limiting use and/or distribution 

of the January 5, 1993 Reporter’s Transcript. 

ACCORDINGLY, 

For purposes of the preparation of Respondent’s answer to the petition, the January 5, 

1993 Reporter’s Transcript, upon lodging under seal in this proceeding, may be used only by

representatives from the Office of the California Attorney General, any representative of the 

Attorney General and any expert retained by the Attorney General’s Office in this federal 

habeas proceeding. If a representative of the Attorney General’s Office provides the January 5, 

1993 Reporter’s Transcript to an expert as authorized above, the Attorney General’s Office shall 

inform the expert of this protective order and the expert’s obligation to keep the Transcript 

confidential.

This order shall continue in effect after the conclusion of the habeas corpus proceedings 

and specifically shall apply in the event of a retrial of all or any portion of Petitioner’s criminal 

case, except that either party maintains the right to request modification or vacation of this order 

upon entry of final judgment in this matter.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 10, 2023 

3 The Court previously issued a Stipulated Protective Order in the case (Doc. 88) relating to certain Reporter’s 

Transcripts of sealed trial court proceedings pursuant to People v. Marsden, 2 Cal. 3d 118 (1970), lodged under 

seal herein (Docs. 89-93). 

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