Opinion
Case No. 1:09-CV-01453-AWI-P
01-06-2012
DEATH PENALTY CASE
Order Submitting Petitioner's
Motions for Stay and Abeyance
and for Additional Equitable
Tolling; Vacating Hearing Set for
January 9, 2012
On October 18, 2011, Petitioner Keith Zon Doolin ("Doolin") filed his federal petition, and concurrently filed a Motion for stay and abeyance. Doc. 86. Respondent Michael Martel ("Warden") opposed stay and abeyance. A hearing was held on the motion for stay and abeyance November 28, 2011. On the same day, Doolin filed a motion for futher equitable tolling. Doc. 126. At the hearing, a ruling on the motion for stay and abeyance was deferred until briefing could be submitted on the motion for further equitable tolling. The Warden filed an opposition to further equitable tolling December 7, 2011, and Doolin filed a reply January 3, 2012.
Doolin's motion for stay and abeyance and his motion for further equitable tolling shall be submitted and resolved without additional oral argument from the parties. The hearing set for January 9, 2012, is vacated.
Doolin's request for copies of certain pages of the lodged record, see Doc. 120, filed November 4, 2011, is denied without prejudice. Doolin may submit the request again with information about the status of the state court's order sealing the documents.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Anthony W. Ishii
Chief United States District Judge