GARLAND E. BURRELL, Jr., Senior District Judge.
IT IS HEREBY stipulated between the United States of America through its undersigned counsel, Matthew Morris, Assistant United States Attorney, attorney for plaintiff, together with Kelly Babineau, attorney for defendant Kristin Caldwell; Olaf Hedberg, attorney for defendant William L. Brown and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant Xavier Johnson that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for August 5, 2016, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference on August 19, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.
Counsel have conferred and this continuance is requested to allow all defense counsel additional time to finalize review of the discovery, met again with our clients, investigate possible defenses. Mr. Hedberg is new to the case and the brief continuance will further his efforts to fully analyze the dynamics of the case.
IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED that the ends of justice served by the granting of such a continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial and that time within which the trial of this case must be commenced under the Speedy Trial Act should therefore be excluded under 18 U.S.C. Section 3161(h)(7)(B) (iv), corresponding to Local Code T-4 (to allow defense counsel time to prepare) from the date of the parties' stipulation, August 2, 2016, up to and including August 19, 2016.
IT IS SO STIPULATED.
The Stipulation of the parties is hereby accepted and the requested continuance is GRANTED. This matter shall be dropped from this court's August 5, 2016 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on August 19, 2016.
Based on the representations of the parties the court finds that the ends of justice served by granting this continuance outweigh the interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial. Time is excluded from the time of the filing of this stipulation on August 2, 2016, through and including August 19, 2016.