STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING CASE AND EXCLUDING TIME

GARLAND E. BURRELL, Jr., Senior District Judge.

IT IS HEREBY stipulated between the United States of America through its undersigned counsel, Paul Hemesath, Assistant United States Attorney, attorney for plaintiff, together with Philip Cozens, attorney for defendant Leon Fields and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant David Dixon that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for November 3, 2017, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference on December 8, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. Counsel for Mr. Dixon was recently appointed in the case and needs additional time to finish evaluating the volume of received discovery in this case, meet with his client and further investigate possible defenses in this matter.

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, November 1, 2017, up to and including December 8, 2017.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

The Stipulation of the parties is hereby accepted and the requested continuance is GRANTED. This matter shall be dropped from this court's November 3, 2017 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on December 8, 2017.

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 November 1, 2017, through and including December 8, 2017.

IT IS SO ORDERED.