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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HERBERT JAMES CODDINGTON,

Petitioner, No. CIV S-01-1290 MCE GGH DP

vs. DEATH PENALTY CASE

VINCE CULLEN, Acting Warden,

Respondent. ORDER

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The parties have requested that petitioner’s reply to the opposition to petitioner’s

motion for discovery be continued to late April 2011, and that the hearing take place sometime in

May. Concurrently, the parties request that any opposition to respondent’s motion for discovery

be similarly scheduled. The parties request that the March 17, 2011 hearing on the discovery

motions be vacated.

The discovery motion was filed December 21, 2010 (after a period of some

months given to file that motion). The effect of the parties’ requests would be to extend the

course of the discovery request/motion to a time period near one year – just to determine what to

request in discovery and to hear the matter. The court may then take some time afterwards to

issue an order. This time period is simply too long. If a discovery motion takes such an amount

of time, it foreshadows an unduly prolonged time within which to adjudicate this habeas petition.

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The undersigned will hear petitioner’s discovery motion on the March 17th date.

No written reply is necessary as oral argument can stand in lieu of a written reply. At that

hearing, an expeditious time schedule will be set for an opposition to respondent’s discovery

motion to the extent it cannot be resolved at the March hearing.

DATED: March 3, 2011

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows

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UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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