Cababe
(PC) Carrasco v. Cababe
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RICHARD CARRASCO, Case No. 1:19-cv-00724-NONE-JDP
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART PLAINTIFF’S
REQUEST FOR TELEPHONE ACCESS TO
v. CONFER WITH HIS ATTORNEYS
JOHNNY CABABE, et al., ECF No.
Defendants. ORDER THAT THE CLERK OF COURT
SERVE A COPY OF THIS ORDER ON THE
LITIGATION COORDINATOR AT
PLAINTIFF’S FACILITY
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Plaintiff, a state prisoner with counsel, has moved for a court order giving him access to two confidential phone calls with his attorneys, the first scheduled to occur on October 14, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. and the second on October 28, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. ECF No. 42. In the court’s experience, it is typically not necessary to issue a writ for telephonic conferences between lawyers and their clients. This is because “prisoners have a Sixth Amendment right to confer privately with counsel,” Mangiaracina v. Penzone, 849 F.3d 1191, 1196 (9th Cir. 2017), and “a…