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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

JOHN MICHAEL BEAMES,

Petitioner,

v.

RON DAVIS, Warden of San Quentin State

Prison,

Respondent.

Case No. 1:10-cv-01429-AWI-SAB

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER GRANTING PETITIONER’S 

REQUEST FOR SEALING ORDER

(ECF No. 140)

Before the Court is Petitioner’s October 21, 2015 notice of request to (1) file under seal a

Notice of Lodgment consisting of two (2) pages, and (2) lodge under seal Exhibit A thereto, a 

Confidential Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal 987 Motion and Orders (“Confidential 987 

Transcript”) prepared by the Tulare County Superior Court on October 24, 2001 and captioned 

as a California Supreme Court document in Petitioner’s automatic appeal, consisting of two 

hundred seventy (270) pages. 

Petitioner represents that the Confidential 987 Transcript is a confidential state court 

record, sealed in state proceedings, which should be protected from disclosure in this proceeding. 

Local Rule 141; see California Penal Code Section 987.9(d). 

Petitioner has served Respondent with the above Notice of Lodgment and Confidential 

987 Transcript proposed for sealing. 

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Respondent has not opposed Petitioner’s sealing request and the time for doing so has 

passed. Local Rule 141(c). 

Accordingly, for good cause shown, it is hereby ORDERED that Petitioner’s request for 

a sealing order (ECF No. 140) is GRANTED as follows: 

1. The Clerk of the Court is directed to (1) file under seal the Notice of Lodgment 

consisting of two (2) pages, and (2) lodge under seal Exhibit A thereto, the 

Confidential 987 Transcript consisting of two hundred seventy (270) pages,

2. The foregoing documents and the information therein constitute confidential 

information which shall not be disclosed, in whole or part, to any person other 

than the Court and Court staff and individually named counsel for the parties for 

their use solely in connection with litigation of the habeas petition pending before 

this Court, 

3. No publicly filed document shall include the above documents and/or the 

information therein unless authorized by the Court to be filed under seal, and 

4. All provisions of this order shall continue to be binding after the conclusion of 

this habeas corpus proceeding 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.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 28, 2015 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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