(PC) Antonio Gutierrez v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 10 ANTONIO GUTIERREZ, JR., Case No. 1:20-cv-01130-JLT-EPG 11 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART

AND DENYING IN PART, WITHOUT

v. PREJUDICE, PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR

ATTENDANCE OF INCARCERATED

M. SANDOVAL, WITNESSES Defendant. (ECF No. 150) 17 Plaintiff Antonio Gutierrez, Jr. is proceeding in forma pauperis in this civil rights action 18 filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff is presently an inmate confined at California 19 Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California. 20 On July 8, 2024, Plaintiff filed a motion titled Motion for the Appearance of Incarcerated 21 Witnesses. (ECF No. 150).1 In this motion, Plaintiff asks that the Court direct the CTF Warden to 22 produce Plaintiff at trial and that Plaintiff “be presented in neat, civilian clothing—not prison 23 garb—and to be unshackled during the trial.” (Id. at 2). Plaintiff does not request the attendance 24 of any other incarcerated witness at trial other than himself. 25 26…