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Donald Aquinas Lancaster, Jr., Esq. 

California State Bar Number 258097 

The Lancaster Law Group, APC 

21900 Burbank Boulevard, 3rd Floor 

Woodland Hills, CA 91367 

Telephone Number: 818.992.2924

Facsimile Number: 818.992.2925

DLancaster@thelancasterlawgroup.com 

Attorney for Plaintiff, Charles T. Davis.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

CHARLES T. DAVIS, 

PLAINTIFF,

v.

C/O KISSINGER, ET AL, 

DEFENDANTS.

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Case No.: 2:04-cv-0878-TLN-DAD (C)

EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR WRIT 

OF HABEAS CORPUS AD 

TESTIFICANDUM AND ORDER 

GRANTING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS 

AD TESTIFICANDUM AS TO SONNY 

RAY HARDAWAY, CDCR NO. P45579.

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Hearing Judge: Honorable Troy L. Nunley

Trial Date: October 27, 2014

Time: 9:00 a.m. 

Dept.: 2

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Sonny Ray Hardaway, inmate CDCR No. P45579, a necessary and 

material witness in proceedings in this case scheduled for trial to commence on October 27, 

2014, is confined at in Salinas Valley State Prison, 31625 Highway 101, Soledad, CA 93960

in the custody of the warden, R.T.C. Grounds. In order to secure this Inmate’s attendance it is 

necessary that a Writ of Habeas Corpus ad Testificandum issue commanding the custodian to 

produce the inmate in Court, Sacramento Federal Courthouse located at the ROBERT T. 

MATSUI FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, 501 I Street, Courtroom 2, 15th Floor, Sacramento, 

CA 95814 on October 27, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. and continuing throughout the duration of the jury 

trial. 

ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED that: 

1) A Writ of Habeas Corpus ad Testificandum issue, under the seal of this Court, 

commanding the Warden to produce Sonny Ray Hardaway, before the United States District 

Court at the above time and place and from day to day until completion of court proceedings or 

as ordered by the court; 

2) The custodian is ordered to notify the court of any change in custody of Inmate and is 

ordered to provide the new custodian with a copy of this writ; and

3) The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve a courtesy copy of this order and writ of 

habeas corpus ad testificandum on the Out-of-Clerk Desk, in Salinas Valley State 

Prison, 31625 Highway 101, Soledad, CA 93960.

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WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AD TESTIFICANDUM 

To: Warden R.T.C. Grounds

WE COMMAND, you to produce Sonny Ray Hardaway to testify in person before the 

United States District Court, Eastern District of California at the time and place and from day to 

day until completion of the proceedings or as ordered by the court. 

FURTHER, you have been ordered to notify the court of any changes in custody of the 

inmate and have ordered to provide the new custodian with a copy of this writ. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: September 16, 2014

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