STIPULATION AND ORDER VACATING DATE, CONTINUING CASE, AND EXCLUDING TIME

TROY L. NUNLEY, District Judge.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Assistant United States Attorneys Josh Sigal and Todd Pickles, Counsel for Plaintiff, and Attorneys Clemente M. Jiménez, Counsel for Defendant JOSE JAIME DIAZ, Danny D. Brace, Jr., Counsel for Defendant EMILIO MARQUEZ BARBA, and Dustin D. Johnson, Counsel for Defendant GABRIEL VARGAS-GUERRERO, that the status conference scheduled for December 11, 2014, at 9:30 a.m., be vacated and the matter continued to this Court's criminal calendar on January 29, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. for further status conference and anticipated change of plea for some or all defendants. Counsel require additional time to conduct further research and investigation in addition to requiring additional time to confer with their respective clients. The parties have been actively attempting to arrive at resolution.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED that time for trial under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 3161 et seq. be tolled pursuant to Section 3161(h)(7)(A) and (B)(iv), (Local code T-4), and that the ends of justice served in granting the continuance and allowing the defendants further time to prepare outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant to a speedy trial.

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED, that the status conference in the above-entitled matter, scheduled for December 11, 2014, at 9:30 a.m., be vacated and the matter continued to this court's criminal calendar on January 29, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. for further status conference and anticipated change of plea. The Court finds that time under the Speedy Trial Act shall be excluded through that date in order to afford counsel reasonable time to prepare. Based on the parties' representations, the Court finds that the ends of justice served by granting a continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendants to a speedy trial.