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CALIFORNIA FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION v. CALDERON

No. C-96-1291-VRW.

956 F.Supp. 883 (1997)

CALIFORNIA FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION and Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, Plaintiffs, v. Arthur CALDERON, Warden of San Quentin State Prison and James H. Gomez, Director of the California Department of Corrections, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

February 28, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan L. Schlosser, Kelli Evans, American Civil Liberties Union, Foundation of Northern CA Inc., San Francisco, CA, Jeffrey S. Ross, Michael J. Kass, Jill Hersh, Friedman Ross & Hersh, P.C., San Francisco, CA, David M. Fried, Law Office of David M. Fried, San Francisco, CA, Lynne S. Coffin, San Francisco, CA, for California First Amendment Coalition, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter.

Karl S. Mayer, CA State Attorney General's Office, San Francisco, CA, for Arthur Calderon, James Gomez.

ORDER

WALKER, District Judge.

On February 23, 1996, California executed William Bonin. It was the state's first execution performed by lethal injection. On that occasion, witnesses were allowed to enter the observation room adjoining the execution chamber only after the condemned had been strapped to the gurney and the intravenous ("IV") tubes had been inserted into his arms. The witnesses did not hear the execution order. After several minutes in the observation...

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