Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD ALLEN McWHORTER, Case No. 1:20-cv-00215-JLT

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER REGARDING PETITIONER’S

APPLICATION TO FILE DOCUMENTS

RON BROOMFIELD, Warden of California UNDER SEAL State Prison at San Quentin, 15 Respondent.1

17 I. INTRODUCTION On July 28, 2023, Petitioner, through counsel Kresta Daly and Saor Stetler, filed on the public docket a Notice of Filing Under Seal an Application to Seal privileged materials. (Doc. 69.) The Notice is associated with the Court’s July 13, 2023 order that tentatively denied Petitioner’s May 15, 2023 Motion for Equitable Tolling and provided his counsel until July 28, 2023 to submit to ex parte and in camera to the Court for sealing any supplemental privileged material supporting the motion. (Doc. 68.) Petitioner has timely submitted to the Court supplemental privileged materials along with an Ex Parte Application to Seal and Proposed Order, as required by Eastern…