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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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DANIEL J. BRODERICK, Bar #89424

Federal Defender

MONICA KNOX, Bar #84555

Assistant Federal Defender

Designated Counsel for Service

801 I Street, 3rd Floor

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 498-5700

Attorneys for Petitioner

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL JOSEPH PRATT,

Petitioner,

v.

MIKE EVANS, Warden, 

Respondent.

 

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NO. CV-02-872 WBS JFM P

PETITIONER’S UNOPPOSED

REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION OF

TIME IN WHICH TO FILE REPLY

TO RESPONDENT’S POSTEVIDENTIARY BRIEF;

DECLARATION OF MONICA KNOX

Petitioner, MICHAEL JOSEPHPRATT, by and through his counsel, Assistant Federal

Defender Monica Knox, hereby requests this Court to extend the time within which petitioner

may file hisreply to respondent’s post-evidentiary hearing brief by fourteen (14) days, to and

including June 30, 2008. This request is based on the attached Declaration of Monica Knox.

Dated: June 16, 2008 Respectfully submitted,

DANIEL J. BRODERICK

Federal Defender

/s/ Monica Knox 

MONICA KNOX

Assistant Federal Defender

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DECLARATION OF MONICA KNOX

I, MONICA KNOX, declare as follows:

I am an attorney licensed to practice in the state of California and admitted to practice

in this district. I am employed as an Assistant Federal Defender and, in that capacity,

represent petitioner in this matter.

Petitioner’s Reply to Respondent’s Post-Evidentiary-Hearing briefis due today. I have

previously asked for and received one 30-day extension of time. I had anticipated that I

would have completed the reply by today, but the day after I requested the prior extension,

the Circuit granted rehearing en banc in Hayward v. Marshall, CA 06-55392. That matters

raises, for the first time before the en banc Court, significant issues related to parole for

California life prisoners. That issue has been my area of expertise for over a decade and I am

substantially involved in the most significant of the state and federal cases in such matters,

including having filed an amicus brief in the California Supreme Court in In re Lawrence

(S154018) and arguing in the California Supreme Court on June 4, 2008 in In re Shaputis,

S155872). Thus, as soon as the argument in Shaputis was completed, I set to work to prepare

an Amicus brief in Hayward. I completed and filed that brief today.

I will now turn my immediate attention to the Reply in this case. Thus, I am seeking

only a 14-day extension. I will not request any further extensions.

I have spoken with respondent’s counsel, Deputy Attorney General Robert Nash. He

has no objection to the requested extension.

I declare the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed this 16th day of June, 2008, at Sacramento, California.

/s/ Monica Knox 

MONICA KNOX

Assistant Federal Defender

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL JOSEPH PRATT,

Petitioner,

v.

MIKE EVANS, Warden, 

Respondent.

 

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NO. CV-02-872 WBS JFM P

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, petitioner is given to and including June 30, 2008,

within which to file his post-evidentiary brief in this matter.

DATED: June 18, 2008.

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