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    The Arizona Attorney General has requested an execution date for Atwood.

    https://www.azag.gov/press-release/a...th-row-inmates
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    Pima County's top prosecutor seeks delay in Atwood execution

    Capitol Media Services

    Pima County’s top prosecutor is seeking a delay in the bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to set an execution date for Tucson killer Frank Jarvis Atwood.

    But in a spat that is pointing up a divergence of views on capital punishment, he is spurning her request.

    In a letter to Brnovich obtained by Capitol Media Services, Laura Conover said that since taking office in January she is reviewing a number of cases, including those on death row, because an “unfortunate” history of the department she said led to disbarments and appellate cases “born out of prosecutorial misconduct.”

    “Now that my name is attached to all the work of the office, I need to undertake a review to be certain we haven’t overlooked anything,” she wrote. Conover said she wants to “put to rest the history here out of the old homicide and capital units.”

    Conover is not seeking to overturn the death sentence imposed on Atwood, a previously convicted pedophile, who was convicted of the 1984 slaying of Vickie Lynne Hoskinson. She disappeared while riding her pink bicycle on her way to mail a letter for her mother.

    Authorities eventually tracked Atwood to Texas where he was arrested on charges of kidnapping. Murder charges were added after Vicki’s skull and some bones were found in the desert northwest of Tucson the following year.

    Atwood has continued to maintain his innocence, even after exhausting all appeals. He contends police planted evidence, including testimony that pink paint on the front bumper of Atwood’s car had come “from the victim’s bike or from another source exactly like the bike” and that Vicki’s bicycle had nickel particles on it that were consistent with metal from the bumper.

    “By no means do I want to cause undue delay,” Conover wrote Brnovich. “But I think we will all be well served by a temporary hold on any death warrants from Pima cases while we put to rest the history here out of the old homicide and capital units.”

    Brnovich dismissed her request.

    Part of it, he wrote, is because the Atwood case was handled by someone from his office and not Pima County, “rendering any proposed review of this case by you unnecessary, as well as untimely.”

    That, however, is only partly correct.

    John Davis actually started handling the case when he was a deputy Pima County attorney. He was allowed to continue handling the case when he went to the state Attorney General’s Office.

    Brnovich, in his response to Conover, also took a slap at her for making the request in the first place.

    “I am concerned that your letter is less about an internal review and more about ending the death penalty in general,” he told her, noting that she campaigned on a platform of ending capital punishment. Brnovich said that it is her right, as the county attorney, to decide when to seek the death penalty.

    “As attorney general, I am charged with enforcing the laws of Arizona, including carrying out capital punishment sentences,” he said. “I also take seriously the finality of jury verdicts, as well as the constitutional right afforded crime victims to a prompt and final resolution of a criminal case.”

    Joe Watson, spokesman for Conover, acknowledged that her reference to “disbarments” of attorneys may have been overstated.

    Only one prosecutor was disbarred after it was determined that he had allowed a police officer to lie on the stand in two murder cases. But Watson said other prosecutors had their law licenses suspended.

    But Watson said there is a “volume of misconduct” by prosecutors that has been detailed when appellate courts reviewed Pima County cases. That, he said, “could result in a lengthy review, especially in the homicide and capital case arena,” the review that Conover wants to conduct before anyone else convicted in her county is put to death.

    Watson acknowledged the opposition of his boss to the death penalty and her decision not to seek it in future cases.

    Part of that, he said, is based on her campaign promises. But Watson said that the move also frees up the attorneys assigned to capital cases to focus on the backlog of other homicide cases that had accumulated before Conover took office.

    And there’s a philosophical element to it, too.

    “The death penalty perpetuates ongoing trauma to victims and their families,” Watson said. And then there’s the fact that “mistakes can happen, evidence can get lost, and science can fail us.’’

    He also said that, at least in Pima County, the overwhelming sentiment is to stop seeking the death penalty.

    The questions Atwood’s attorneys want the Supreme Court to address go beyond questions of the propriety of capital punishment. One of those issues is the timing — and the schedule that the attorney general wants to set.

    Brnovich has said there are about 20 people on death row who have exhausted all their appeals. Yet he chose to seek warrants of execution against just two: Atwood and Clarence Wayne Dixon, who was convicted of killing Deana Bowdoin, an Arizona State University student, in 1978. Other Death Row inmates exhausted their appeals even earlier than Atwood and Dixon.

    Joe Perkovich, another of Atwood’s attorneys, told Capitol Media Services he thinks the rush with his client has to do with a bid by Brnovich to preclude a pending issue from being legally resolved.

    Under Arizona law, the death penalty can be imposed only when there is at least one “aggravating factor.” That can include things like whether the murder was committed for financial gain or whether it was done in an especially cruel and heinous fashion.

    In Atwood’s case, there was only one aggravating factor: a prior conviction from California. But Perkovich said the Supreme Court needs to resolve whether that out-of-state conviction can be used as a reason to sentence someone to death for an Arizona crime.

    That issue, he said, was not raised at the time of the trial and sentencing but only recently when Atwood’s attorneys asked Pima County Superior Court to take a look.

    The attorney general’s office said that claim was dismissed, though Perkovich said that proceeding was shut down because of the pandemic. And Perkovich said that Brnovich wants to hurry along Atwood’s execution before there can be a full hearing on the matter.

    Ryan Anderson, a spokesman for Brnovich, said he can’t comment on the charge, saying these issues will be addressed in future court filings.

    But Kevin Heade, president of Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona, said there’s something else in the decision to move the Atwood and Dixon cases to the front of the line. In both cases, he said, the families of the victims have been very vocal in their support of the death penalty.

    Hoskinson’s mother, Debbie Carlson, has been particularly vocal, both publicly thanking Brnovich “for standing with us in our quest for justice” and pressuring Gov. Doug Ducey to have the state Corrections Department procure the necessary drugs to execute Atkinson.

    Heade said Brnovich putting those two up first “reeks of political opportunism so that he can demonstrate commitment to victims’ rights.”

    Anderson dismissed the allegation.

    “This is about justice, period,” he said.

    There is a more specific legal question: Do the justices have the ability to delay an execution.

    In his own filing with the court, Brnovich says the only thing they have to determine is whether there has been a conclusion to Atwood’s first post-conviction proceeding and any appellate review.

    “If those proceedings have terminated, as the state will show, the relevant statute and procedural rule, respectfully, leave this court no discretion to deny the warrant,”

    Atwood’s attorneys are asking the justices to reject that claim, saying that it would reduce the court to “a rubber stamp acting at the direction of the executive department.”

    “And there would be no independent check on the attorney general’s ability to set execution dates,” the pleadings say.

    It isn’t just Atwood seeking a delay.

    Attorneys for Dixon have filed their own request. But unlike Atwood, the claims are much narrower. They have to do with the inability of the lawyers to get with their client due to COVID-19 restrictions to discuss things like preparing to go before the Board of Executive Clemency.

    https://tucson.com/news/local/pima-c...b976360db.html
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    Prisoner Frank Atwood disputes shelf life of Arizona's execution drug

    PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona death row prisoner, who would be among the state’s first executions in almost seven years, has filed documents arguing the lethal injection drug to be used would expire sooner than prosecutors maintain and that makes it impossible to carry out his execution.

    In a filing Wednesday, attorneys for Frank Atwood asked the Arizona Supreme Court to order a lower court to hold a hearing over the state’s claim that the pentobarbital to be used in their client’s execution would expire 90 days after the chemical powder is compounded into an injectable fluid. His lawyers contend the drug is unusable 45 days after it’s compounded.

    Atwood’s attorneys said there isn’t enough time within the 45-day shelf life to request an execution warrant, compound the drug, test it to verify it will be effective in killing him and then carry out the execution. “The patently incorrect claim that the drugs will be good for 90 days is serving to distract from the Attorney General’s real problem with his choice of pentobarbital for Arizona’s return to executions,” Joseph Perkovich, one of Atwood’s lawyers, said in a statement.

    Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office has said it’s asking the state’s highest court to set a litigation schedule before the warrant is filed so that the briefings don't extend the execution date beyond the drug’s 90-day shelf life. Prosecutors said the drug must be compounded shortly after they make the execution warrant request to give enough time to conduct a mandatory quantitative test of the drug.

    Under the sequence of filings laid out by the attorney general’s office, Atwood’s attorneys would have 10 days to respond after prosecutors file a request for his execution warrant, and prosecutors would then get another five days to file a reply. An execution date would be set for 35 days after the Supreme Court issues a death warrant, prosecutors said.

    Prosecutors said in court filings that they weren’t trying to abandon procedure or create new rule, but rather were trying to ensure the litigation process was orderly.

    “General Brnovich is committed to upholding the rule of law and opposing erroneous legal arguments and misguided antics to delay the administration of justice,” Katie Conner, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said in a statement. “We must always stand up for the victims, their families and our communities.”

    Atwood and Clarence Dixon are the first death row prisoners in Arizona to be eyed for execution since the 2014 death of Joseph Wood, who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours. His attorney said the execution was botched.

    States including Arizona have struggled to buy execution drugs in recent years after U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products in lethal injections. Arizona corrections officials revealed earlier this year that they had finally obtained a lethal injection drug and were ready to resume executions.

    Earlier this month, Brnovich’s office told the state’s highest court that it intended on seeking execution warrants for Dixon and Atwood soon.

    Dixon was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.

    Atwood was convicted in Pima County and sentenced to death for killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in 1984. Authorities say Atwood kidnapped the girl, whose body was found in the desert northwest of Tucson.

    Attorneys for Atwood and Dixon had previously asked the state Supreme Court to hold off on scheduling the litigation over their upcoming death warrants, arguing the pandemic had made it hard for them to prepare defenses for their clients due to a ban on visits inside state prisons over the last year.

    Brnovich’s office said Atwood’s attorneys could have visited with their clients by phone or video link for the past year and noted that corrections officials have recently allowed limited in-person visits between death row prisoners and their lawyers.

    https://www.azfamily.com/news/ap_cnn...lock_id=997197
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    Arizona Supreme Court Sets Execution Warrant Briefing Schedules For 2 Death Row Prisoners

    The Arizona Supreme Court has set timetables for the state to make its case for conducting the first executions in seven years.

    The court granted requests from Attorney General Mark Brnovich to set briefing schedules for pursuing warrants of execution for prisoners Frank Atwood and Clarence Dixon.

    Attorneys for Atwood previously asked the Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request to set the briefing schedule, citing an ongoing appeal and what they called "unanswered questions" in the case.

    Assistant Federal Public Defender Dale Baich, an attorney for Dixon, requested the Supreme Court postpone the ruling on the attorney general’s request for an execution timetable until the fall.

    In their recent orders, the Supreme Court denied those requests.

    After the attorney general files the motions seeking the warrants, responses from defense attorneys and replies to those responses will be due to the court by Aug. 11 for Atwood and Sept. 2 for Dixon.

    Arizona Supreme Court spokesperson Aaron Nash said if the court issues the warrants, "then that moves to that next step that’s in statute, authorizing the director of the Department of Corrections to schedule the execution within 35 days.”

    In response to the state supreme court setting the briefing schedule, Atwood attorney Joseph Perkovich said "much more needs to be learned about the compounded pharmaceuticals Arizona plans to use in the numerous executions the Attorney General has stated he expects to carry out."

    "The state of Arizona’s abysmal track record requires meaningful scrutiny of its plan," Perkovic said. "But, so far, the state judiciary has shown no regard for the gravity of the power that the Attorney General intends to exercise.”

    Dixon was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.

    Atwood was convicted in Pima County and sentenced to death for killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in 1984. Authorities say Atwood kidnapped the girl, whose body was found in the desert northwest of Tucson.

    According to the attorney general, there are currently 115 prisoners on Arizona’s death row and approximately 20 have exhausted all appeals.

    Associated Press contributed to this report.

    https://kjzz.org/content/1686279/ari...es-2-death-row

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    According to this article, the Arizona Supreme Court will rule on the states motion in Atwood's case on August 24. His execution will probably be scheduled for September 28 if they schedule him 35 days in advance.

    https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-sup...cution-1595004
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    Arizona authorities ask to expedite 2 executions, citing shelf life of lethal injection drug

    By ROBERT ANGLEN
    The Arizona Republic

    The Arizona Department of Corrections said in April it was ready to resume lethal injections and spent $1.5 million for the drug needed to carry them out.

    Authorities now acknowledge they were wrong about how long the lethal cocktail would last — and want to expedite the execution of two prisoners.

    In a court filing on Tuesday, the Arizona Attorney General's Office said the drug only has a 45-day shelf life once it is compounded, half of the 90 days they originally stated.

    Forty-five days cuts the state's time to file an execution warrant, test the drug and put a prisoner to death.

    The state must have the drug compounded shortly after the state formally files for a warrant of execution for a prisoner, according to testing and disclosure requirements. The AG's solution: speed up the hearing schedule for the two men so the executions can go forward as planned in the available time frame.

    Frank Atwood's scheduled execution date is Sept. 28. Clarence Dixon's execution date is scheduled for Oct. 19. Both men were convicted of murder.

    "The State respectfully requests that this Court modify the briefing schedule currently in place so that the September 28 projected execution date will fall within the 45-day initial beyond-use date of the compounded pentobarbital," Deputy Solicitor General Lacey Stover Gard wrote in one of two June 22 motions.

    The move comes after lawyers for Atwood repeatedly called out the state on claims that the compounded lethal injection drug could last for up to 90 days, citing medical journals and scientific experts who said the drug loses potency after 45 days.

    "They completely agreed with our argument," lawyer Joe Perkovich said. "They totally capitulated on everything we have said."

    Attorney General Mark Brnovich is attempting to save face by pushing the executions earlier, Perkovich said.

    "He is trying to shirk responsibility for any foul-up," Perkovich said. "He has blown a million and a half dollars on a drug he can't legally use in Arizona."

    In addition to the purchase price of the drug, the state spent another $400,000 on pharmaceutical consulting fees, Perkovich said.

    Brnovich's office did not address questions about the drug from The Arizona Republic on Wednesday. An office spokesperson said the office filed motions to ensure the executions were done in accordance with the law.

    "We must always ensure that justice is served for the victims, their families, and our communities," spokeswoman Katie Conner said in a statement.

    Officials with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry also did not respond to questions about the lethal injection drug. On Thursday, officials issued a statement saying they would not comment.

    "ADCRR does not comment on pending litigation nor does the Department discuss its procurement process for execution drugs or services rendered to carry out these legally imposed sentences," Spokeswoman Judy Keane said in an email. "ADCRR stands ready, with the AG’s Office, to administer justice."

    Botched drug, lethal gas purchases

    The issue raises further questions about the state's readiness to carry out executions. A June 4 report by The Republic revealed the state purchased the wrong gas chamber chemicals in preparation for resuming executions.

    Arizona voters abolished the gas chamber nearly 30 years ago. But state law gives 17 inmates convicted of offenses before 1992, including Atwood, the choice of dying by gas or lethal injection.

    The potency and the shelf life of the drug matter because of what happened during a botched lethal injection in 2014, after which executions were suspended in Arizona.

    Joseph Wood snorted and gulped for air for nearly two hours as his lawyers attempted to reach an Arizona judge and halt the execution. The manner of his death led to lawsuits, required the state to adopt a new lethal injection cocktail and begin a lengthy process to find an approved drug.

    The state has twice been caught trying to illegally import execution drugs.

    In 2010, drugs bound for Arizona and other states were confiscated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; federal courts ruled the drugs could not be legally brought into the country. In 2015, the Arizona Department of Corrections paid nearly $27,000 to import an illegal execution drug that was seized by federal authorities.

    The state in its motion on Tuesday blamed confusion about the shelf life of the lethal injection drug on a "revised opinion" from an unnamed pharmacist advising the state on the pentobarbital to be used in Atwood's execution.

    The pharmacist first told the state the drug had a 90-day shelf life.

    "The pharmacist, however, has now revised that opinion and has advised (the Department of Corrections) that, until certain specialized testing of a sample batch is conducted, pentobarbital that is compounded for Atwood’s execution will have an initial beyond-use date of 45 days," attorney Stover Gard wrote.

    Testing could extend the beyond-use date of subsequently compounded doses from the same batch of pentobarbital, but she warned the court: "This testing has not yet commenced and will not be completed in time to accommodate the briefing schedule."

    Under the terms of a civil settlement after Wood's death, the Department of Corrections is prohibited from using any chemicals with shelf lives that expire before the date of an execution, Stover Gard said in her motion.

    Brnovich seeks warrants of execution

    Brnovich, who this month launched his campaign for U.S. Senate, announced in April that he intended to seek execution warrants for Atwood and Dixon.

    He said he would ask the Arizona Supreme Court "to establish a firm briefing schedule" that would allow the state to comply with drug testing and disclosure obligations.

    "This will guarantee strict compliance with the current lethal-injection protocol and a related settlement," Brnovich said in an April 6 statement.

    Atwood, 65, was sentenced in Pima County in 1987 for the murder of an 8-year-old girl, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson. According to court records, Atwood was driving in a neighborhood looking for a child in 1984.

    Atwood had a prior conviction from California for kidnapping a young boy.

    Atwood spotted Hoskinson, hit her bike with his car and grabbed her. He murdered her in the desert, according to court records.

    Dixon, 65, was convicted in 2008 for the 1978 murder of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old senior at Arizona State University found dead inside her apartment with a belt around her neck.

    Multiple lawyers have argued since the 1970s that Dixon has severe mental health issues.

    Two days before Dixon murdered Bowdoin, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled he was "not guilty by reason of insanity" for an attack on another woman. Sandra Day O'Connor was the judge. Dixon was released without supervision from a state hospital.

    Lawyer: AG's request 'breathtaking'

    The attorney general wants the court to ensure that once it seeks execution warrants for Atwood and Dixon that the death penalty will be carried out within the 45-day shelf life of the lethal injection drug.

    "As discussed in previous pleadings, ADCRR's compound pharmacist will compound the pentobarbital shortly after the date on which the State's Motion is filed to comply with the protocol's testing and disclosure requirements," the state's motion said.

    Rather than seeking to delay the execution, Brnovich's office asked the court to keep Atwood's original execution date of Sept. 28 and shrink the time for filing legal motions from 90 to 45 days.

    A nearly identical motion seeks the same narrow window for Dixon, whose execution date is scheduled for Oct. 19.

    Perkovich, whose nonprofit law firm represents defendants in death penalty cases across the country, called Brnovich's request "breathtaking."

    He said the 45-day window restricts the usual period for filing motions. Not only will lawyers lose chances to respond, the Arizona Supreme Court will have no time to consider arguments, he said.

    The request is "unprecedented and a radical departure" from the way execution motions have been handled since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the 1970s, Perkovich said.

    "The most grave thing that a court does is put someone to death," he said. "This is asking the Supreme Court to be a rubber stamp for the attorney general."

    https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/...on/5328783001/

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    Projected Execution Dates Halted for 2 Arizona Inmates

    The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday threw out the schedule that would lead to the execution warrants for two death row inmates, delaying the projected dates for their executions.

    PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday threw out the schedule that would lead to the execution warrants for two death row inmates, delaying the projected dates for their executions.

    Prosecutors now will have to do more testing of the state’s lethal injection drug before seeking execution warrants for Clarence Dixon and Frank Atwood. The two men are the first death row prisoners in Arizona to be eyed for execution since the 2014 death of Joseph Wood, who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours.

    Prosecutors asked the state’s high court late last month to modify the schedules in their bid to get an execution warrant for Dixon after they revealed the shelf life of Arizona’s lethal injection drug was half as long as they previously thought.

    The changes were being sought to accommodate for the drug’s shorter shelf life and keep the projected Oct. 19 execution date for Dixon on track.

    States including Arizona have struggled to buy execution drugs in recent years after U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products in lethal injections. Arizona corrections officials revealed earlier this year that they had finally obtained a lethal injection drug and were ready to resume executions.

    In a July 6 filing, Dixon’s lawyer Cary Sandman said the state’s new scheduling proposal would give her only four days to respond to the execution warrant request. She had 10 days under the current schedule.

    The high court on Monday denied the state Attorney General’s request to modify the briefing process for issuing the execution warrants and vacated the schedules.

    Atwood was facing a potential late September execution date.

    Dixon’s execution date was based around a belief by a compounding pharmacist that the drug pentobarbital had a shelf life of 90 days.

    The state now says until specialized testing on a sample batch of the drug is done, the shelf life of the pentobarbital to be compounded for Dixon’s execution would be 45 days.

    Dixon was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.

    Atwood was convicted in Pima County and sentenced to death for killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in 1984. Authorities said Atwood kidnapped the girl and her body later was found in the desert northwest of Tucson.

    Arizona has 115 inmates on death row.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...rizona-inmates

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    Arizona AG pushing state to move forward with executing 2 death row inmates

    The two inmates have been convicted of murder and have lost all attempts to appeal their sentence

    By 12 News

    PHOENIX — Arizona’s attorney general is pushing the state to move forward with the process to perform the first execution of death row inmates in Arizona since 2014.

    Mark Brnovich requested on Wednesday for the Arizona Supreme Court to schedule a meeting with his office so he may file a warrant for the state to execute Frank Atwood and Clarence Dixon.

    Atwood was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old Tucson girl in 1984. Dixon was convicted for the brutal rape and murder of a 21-year-old ASU student in the 1970s that went unsolved for decades until DNA tracking technology pointed Tempe police to him.

    Both men have lost all attempts to appeal their death sentence, according to Brnovich's office.

    "Justice has been a long time coming in some of the most heinous crimes committed in our state,” Brnovich said.

    The last time Arizona carried out an execution was in 2014 when convicted murderer Joseph Wood died by lethal injection.

    Wood’s death stirred controversy after what was alleged to be an ethical, 10-minute execution process ended up taking more than two hours with the 55-year-old inmate gasping for air and convulsing before dying.

    A total of 37 people have been executed in Arizona since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976, and more than 100 inmates are currently on death row.

    Brnovich’s office said that the Arizona Supreme Court has not responded to his request yet.

    https://www.12news.com/article/news/...3-ef29df802b87
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    Atwood submitted his reply in opposition to the state’s motion to schedule his execution date on January 20.

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    Enough!

    It's a shame that opposition to carrying out Atwoods execution comes not only from him, but from the DA, who refuses to seek the death penalty in current cases. That has obviously given new life to his legal team's efforts to postpone his death by execution. I understand a condemned inmate’s lawyers have to pursue all avenues toward keeping their client alive. But, there isn't a doubt of his guilt, and the kidnapping, rape and murder of a child is, for me, an example of why there is the death penalty. Atwood has lived on death row for about 35 years. That's too long for a sentence to be carried out. Too long for the victim's family to see this finished!
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