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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH MARTIN DANKS, Case No. 1:11-cv-00223-JLT

Petitioner, DEATH PENALTY CASE

v. ORDER REGARDING PETITIONER’S

FURTHER REQUEST TO FILE

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

17 I. INTRODUCTION On July 26, 2023, Petitioner, through counsel the Habeas Corpus Resource Center by attorney Melissa Burkhard, filed on the public docket a Notice of Request to Seal a portion of the January 5, 1993 Reporter’s Transcript of trial court proceedings relating to expert funding pursuant to California Penal Code section 987.9, which is sealed in state court. (Doc. 96.) The Notice is associated with the Court’s prior orders affording counsel for Respondent, Deputy Attorney General Justain Riley, access to sealed reporter’s transcripts of state court proceedings on motions to substitute counsel pursuant to People v. Marsden, 2 Cal. 3d 118 (1970), and modifying the…