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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT WESLEY COWAN, Case No. 1:19-cv-00745-DAD

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER (1) VACATING APRIL 7, 2020

HEARING ON PETITIONER’S UNOPPOSED

RONALD DAVIS, Warden of the California MOTION FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING, and State Prison at San Quentin, (2) GRANTING EQUITABLE TOLLING 15 Respondent. 16

18 Before the court for a decision is the March 16, 2020 motion filed on behalf of petitioner Robert Wesley Cowan to equitably toll the deadline under 28 U.S.C. § 2244 for the filing of his federal habeas petition from May 15, 2020 to and including August 13, 2020. Petitioner’s counsel noticed that motion for hearing on April 7, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. before the undersigned. Respondent warden Ronald Davis, through counsel, filed his non-opposition to the motion on March 19, 2020. The court having considered the parties’ filings and the record finds the pending motion amenable to decision without a hearing. Based upon the facts of…