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4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10

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

12 Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

13 v. TENTATIVE ORDER AS TO

RESPONDENT’S NOTIFICATION

14 RON BROOMFIELD, Warden of San REGARDING PROTECTIVE ORDER Quentin State Prison, OF OCTOBER 5, 2007 15 Respondent.1 16

17 18 Before the Court is the notification filed by counsel for Respondent, Supervising 19 Deputy Attorney General Kenneth Sokoler (Docs. 416, 416-1), regarding the stipulated 20 protective order filed in the case on October 5, 2007 (Doc. 227). 21 On July 14, 2022, pursuant to the Ninth Circuit’s decision on appeal, this Court granted 22 a conditional writ of habeas corpus in the 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding challenging 23 Petitioner’s 1982 murder conviction and death sentence rendered in Kern County Superior 24 Court Case No. 22079. Therein, the Court directed that the State of California vacate the 25 death sentence imposed upon Petitioner and sentence him to a penalty other than death in 26

27 1 Ron Broomfield,…