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Parties Involved:
Darrel Adams
Respondent
Patrick Andrew Pierce
Petitioner

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PATRICK ANDREW PIERCE, 

Petitioner, No. CIV S-06-1622 FCD GGH P

vs.

DARREL ADAMS, Warden, ORDER

Respondent.

 /

Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding with appointed counsel, has filed a petition

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Pending before the court is petitioner’s December 3, 2006, motion

to stay this matter, pending exhaustion of claim 4 of the first amended petition, the ineffective

assistance of counsel claim regarding the failure of petitioner’s trial counsel to object to the

admission of evidence concerning the North Carolina jurors based on Cal. Evid. Code § 1150,

and the appellate attorney’s ineffective assistance in failing to raise such a claim on appeal. 

Respondent has opposed the motion. A hearing on the motion was held on January 18, 2007. 

Philip Brooks appeared for petitioner; Todd Marshall represented respondent. 

At the hearing, petitioner was directed to file a state supreme court petition raising

the claim at issue forthwith and, following the state supreme court’s decision, to immediately

inform this court of the state court’s decision. As there has been no subsequent filing regarding

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the status of petitioner’s efforts to exhaust claim 4, the court will now direct petitioner to inform

the court of the status of any such effort. 

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, within five (5) calendar days of the filing

date of this order, petitioner inform this court of the date on which a petition was filed in the state

supreme court raising claim 4, and of the date of the state supreme court’s decision, if one has

been issued. Petitioner’s response may be in the form of a brief letter electronically filed in the

docket of this case. 

DATED: 8/7/07

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

GGH:009

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