Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONALD L. SANDERS, Case No. 1:92-cv-05471-JLT-SAB

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER GRANTING CONDITIONAL

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

RON DAVIS, Warden of San Quentin State Prison, 14 Respondent.1

16 Ronald L. Sanders filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging his 1982 murder conviction, death eligibility findings, and death sentence rendered in Kern County Superior Court Case No. 22079. Petitioner was tried jointly with a co-defendant and both were convicted by jury on retrial (after one jury was unable to reach a verdict) of first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, robbery, burglary, and attempted robbery, with special circumstances of murder during the commission of a burglary, murder during the commission of a robbery, murder to prevent testimony in a criminal proceeding, and an especially heinous, atrocious, and cruel murder, all found true. Pursuant to Petitioner’s request, no penalty phase…