Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD LACY LETNER, Case No. 1:18-cv-01459-JLT

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER DIRECTING THE FILING

OF POST-EXHAUSTION STATUS

JAMES HILL, Warden of the R. J. Donovan CONFERENCE STATEMENT(S) Correctional Facility, 15 Respondent.1 16 On June 2, 2025, petitioner filed a notice that:

[A]s of May 14, 2025, when the state’s highest court denied his petition for review in case no. S290042, [petitioner] has completed his exhaustion process. A case on [petitioner’s] behalf is currently pending before the state’s highest court (S290632) regarding the application of the state’s narrowing of its definition of murder in California to [petitioner] as provided by Penal Code Section 1172.6. See Duke v. Gastelo, 64 F.4th 1088 (9th Cir., 2023). (Doc. 72 at 1-2.) The record in the case reflects that on July 10, 2020, the Court stayed this 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding for state court exhaustion of claims in the federal petition filed on…