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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JORGE CONTRERAS, 

Petitioner,

v.

RONALD DAVIS, Warden of California State 

Prison at San Quentin, 

Respondent.

Case No. 1:19-cv-01523-AWI-SAB

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER DISCHARGING ORDER TO SHOW 

CAUSE

ORDER PROVIDING ADDITIONAL 

SCHEDULING FOR CONTINUED CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Additional Scheduling:

Updated Joint Statement: Due by 2/17/20

Electronic Record: Lodged by 2/17/20

Initial Budget: Submitted by 2/17/20

Before the Court is the joint statement of Petitioner and Respondent, through counsel, 

regarding case management (ECF No. 18), and their respective responses to the Court’s 

January 21, 2020 order to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed for failure to obey 

its December 11, 2019 scheduling order (ECF Nos. 19 and 16 respectively). 

Counsel, in their joint statement stipulate to equitable tolling of the deadline for filing 

the petition and to certain pleading deadlines. 

Counsel for Petitioner respond to the show cause order by conceding inadvertent failure 

to comply with the Court’s scheduling order and stating that notwithstanding diligent efforts, 

they do not yet have sufficient information to prepare an initial budget. 

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Counsel for Respondent responds to the show cause order by conceding inadvertent 

failure to comply with the Court’s scheduling order and stating the state record is ready to be 

scanned for electronic lodging within three weeks. 

ACCORDINGLY, 

1. The Court discharges the January 21, 2020 show cause order (ECF No. 15). 

2. By not later than February 17, 2020, counsel for the parties shall meet and 

confer and file an updated joint statement regarding case management 

addressing all scheduling and other matters raised by the parties and noted by 

the Court in its prior scheduling order (i.e. ECF No. 14). 

3. By not later than February 17, 2020, counsel for Petitioner shall submit through 

eVoucher a complete initial budget including supporting documentation. 

4. By not later than February 17, 2020, counsel for Respondent shall file a Notice 

of Lodging and lodge with the Court the state court record as specified 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 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 optical character 

recognition (OCR) format.

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

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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, “Attachment #1, AG00001-AG00300 

(Clerk’s Transcript 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.

c. The state court record need not also be lodged on CDs, and courtesy 

copies on CD are not required.

5. The continued case management conference shall be held on February 24, 2020 

at 11:15 p.m. in Department No. 9 before the undersigned as previously 

scheduled. 

6. Counsel are admonished that any further noncompliance with an order of the 

Court will be closely scrutinized for imposition of sanctions. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 4, 2020 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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