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Parties Involved:
Crystal Eugene Jones
Petitioner
Joe McGrath
Respondent

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CRYSTAL EUGENE JONES,

Petitioner, No. CIV S-04-1082 MCE KJM P

vs.

 JOE MCGRATH, 

Respondent. ORDER

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Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for a writ of habeas

corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his Sacramento County conviction for first degree

murder. Among his challenges is a claim that the trial court’s denial of his Marsden motion

effectively violated his right to effective assistance of counsel. Pet. at 5. This court cannot

address this issue based on the current record, which is inadequate.

Under Rule 5(c) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, this court may

“order that the respondent furnish ... parts of existing transcripts” and under Rule 7(a), this court

may direct the parties to expand the record. The court recognizes that respondent did not receive

the transcript of the Marsden hearing. However, the hearing was transcribed and sent to the

Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District. See People v. Barr, C039544 (entry for

12/12/2001). Accordingly, the court directs respondent to request the Court of Appeal to transmit

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the following transcript to this court under seal and labeled with the instant case number: a

Marsden hearing held on December 20, 2000, reported at RT 1-6.

The request shall be made in sufficient time that these materials can be filed

within forty-five days of the date of this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: June 26, 2007.

jone1082

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