Turner

On October 19, 1988, in San Bernardino County Superior Court, defendant Richard Dean Turner was sentenced to death. On September 12, 1991, Attorney Thomas L. Riordan was appointed as lead counsel to represent defendant Turner in his automatic appeal and any related habeas corpus proceedings; on June 26, 1992, Attorney Robert M. Sanger was appointed as associate counsel to represent defendant Turner in the same capacity. The record on appeal was certified on July 6, 1999, and included a reporter’s transcript of 4,675 pages and a clerk’s transcript of 3,303 pages, including approximately 1,755 pages of juror questionnaires. By letter on that same date, the court informed Riordan and Sanger that the appellant’s opening brief was due on August 16, 1999. The court thereafter granted requests for extensions of time to file appellant’s opening brief on August 20, 1999, October 21, 1999, December 23, 1999, February 28, 2000, April 18, 2000, and July 3, 2000.

On August 25, 2000, we granted Riordan and Sanger’s seventh request for an extension of time to file the opening brief “to and including October 13, 2000,” but stated in our order: “No further extensions of time are…