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Parties Involved:
Vincente Salvador Arenas-Garcia
Defendant
Miguel Zuniga Arteaga
Defendant
Armando Martinez
Defendant
Miguel Angel Sanchez-Meza
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff
Juan Vizuett-Resendiz
Defendant
Terry Whited
Defendant

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PHILLIP A. TALBERT

Acting United States Attorney

ANGELA L. SCOTT

Assistant United States Attorneys

2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401

Fresno, CA 93721

Telephone: (559) 497-4000

Facsimile: (559) 497-4099

Attorneys for Plaintiff

United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

MIGUEL ZUNIGA ARTEAGA,

ARMANDO MARTINEZ, 

TERRY WHITED, 

MIGUEL ANGEL SANCHEZ-MEZA,

JUAN VIZUETT-RESENDIZ, and

VINCENTE SALVADOR ARENAS-GARCIA,

 Defendant. 

CASE NO. 1:20-CR-00212-DAD-BAM

ORDER REGARDING

GOVERNMENT'S DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE 

MATERIALS AND PERSONAL 

IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

The Court has received and considered the jointly-filed Stipulation Regarding Disclosure of 

Sensitive Materials and Personal Identifying Information between Plaintiff United States of America, by 

and through its counsel of record, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, and 

defendant ARMANDO MARTINEZ (“defendant”), by and through his counsel of record, Caroline 

McCreary.

Good cause showing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:

1. The government will identify the discovery materials in this case the disclosure of which 

could jeopardize the safety of witnesses or other persons or affect the confidentiality of ongoing 

investigations (the “Sensitive Materials”).

2. The government will mark all Sensitive Materials with the following stamp or 

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inscription: “PROTECTIVE ORDER”

3. If the government distributes any document, compact disk, or other material bearing the 

above label:

a. Defense counsel shall not distribute Sensitive Materials to anyone other than her

own legal staff (including paralegal assistants, legal secretaries, defense investigators, and lawyerassociates);

b. Defense counsel shall not allow anyone other than herself and her legal staff to 

possess, or maintain possession of, any Sensitive Materials;

c. Defense counsel or her legal staff may show defendant Sensitive Materials, but 

may not allow defendant to possess Sensitive Materials other than in the presence of defense counsel or 

her legal staff;

d. Defendant shall not distribute the Sensitive Materials to anyone;

e. Defense counsel and defendant may not disclose the contents of any Sensitive 

Materials publicly, including in any court filing, without first meeting and conferring with government 

counsel, and, in any event, shall file any Sensitive Materials under seal.

4. The parties must confer before filing any motions regarding the government’s disclosure 

(or lack of disclosure) of Sensitive Materials.

5. The evidence in this matter also includes personal identification information for others, 

including but not limited to names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers and bank account 

numbers (collectively “personal information”).

6. This personal information is found throughout the discovery in this case, which includes, 

among other records, thousands of pages of records from banks, other financial institutions, businesses 

and police departments.

7. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT:

a. Only defense counsel, defense counsel’s agents, and the defendant may review 

the unredacted personal information contained in the discovery. Defense counsel, defense counsel’s

agents and defendant may only use the unredacted personal information or any portion thereof for the 

specific purpose of preparing or presenting a defense in this matter and for no other purpose.

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8. Only defense counsel and defense counsel’s agents may make copies of any discovery 

containing unredacted personal information; the defendant may make copies for his own use only of any 

discovery containing unredacted personal information that has been provided to him by his defense 

counsel or his defense counsel’s agents, and may not release any such copies to any third party.

9. At the conclusion of this matter, defense counsel will collect and destroy any and all 

copies of documents and portions thereof containing the personal information that defense counsel 

possesses and/or has made and distributed to their agents and/or defendant, except a copy set as 

necessary to maintain in defense counsel’s case file.

10. This Order shall apply to unredacted personal information contained in all discovery 

produced in this case, including any discovery produced after entry of this Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 2, 2021 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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