STIPULATION TO EXCLUDE TIME; [PROPOSED] ORDER

RICHARD SEEBORG, District Judge.

On October 25, 2016, the parties in the above-captioned matter, through defense counsel Lee Rubin and AUSA Hartley West, appeared before the Court for defendant's motion for severance and a status hearing. The Court set a deadline of November 4, 2016 for the defendant to file a motion for leave to take a deposition under Fed. R. Crim. P. 15. Defense counsel requested that the trial date be continued to allow adequate time for briefing and a decision by the Court on Defendant's Rule 15 motion and to afford defense counsel an opportunity to prepare the defense after taking account of the Court's ruling on Defendants' motion. The Court continued the trial to February 27, 2016. The defense requested that the intervening time until February 27, 2017, be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act for effective preparation of the defense. The government did not object to this exclusion of time.

SO STIPULATED.

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Based upon the representation of counsel and for good cause shown, the Court finds that failing to exclude the time between October 25, 2016 through February 27, 2017 would deny counsel the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation, taking into account the exercise of due diligence. 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(B)(iv). The Court further finds that the ends of justice served by excluding the time between October 25, 2016 through February 27, 2017, from computation under the Speedy Trial Act outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial. Therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the time between October 25, 2016 through February 27, 2017, shall be excluded from computation under the Speedy Trial Act. 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A) and (B)(iv).