Brown

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN LEE HOLT, Case No. 1:97-cv-06210-DAD

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER GRANTING CROSS-MOTIONS TO

ADMIT REPORTS OF DECEASED AND

RON DAVIS, Warden of San Quentin State UNAVAILABLE EXPERTS Prison, 14 Respondent. 15 BACKGROUND Presently before the court are: (1) the September 22, 2017 motion in limine filed by petitioner, through his counsel, attorney Robert Myers and Assistant Federal Defender Jennifer Mann, to admit as substantive evidence the Rule 26 reports of deceased defense experts Drs. William Pierce and Samuel Benson (Doc. No. 292);1 and (2) the November 29, 2017 oral motion by respondent, through his counsel, Deputy Attorney Generals Sean McCoy and Peter Thompson, to admit as substantive evidence the Rule 26 report of unavailable expert Dr. James Missett (EHRT 266). Both motions pending before the court relate to the limited evidentiary hearing conducted before the undersigned on October…