STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING CASE AND EXCLUDING TIME

TROY L. NUNLEY, 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; William Dubois, attorney for defendant William L. Brown and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant Xavier Johnson that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for March 27, 2014, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference on May 15, 201 at 9:30 a.m.

Counsel have conferred and this continuance is requested to allow defense counsel additional time to finalize review of the discovery, met again with our clients, investigate possible defenses and to continue exploring the facts of the case. In addition, there are plea agreements forthcoming which will have to be triaged with our respective clients.

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, March 25, 2014 up to and including May 15, 2014.

ORDER

The Stipulation of the parties is hereby accepted and the requested continuance is GRANTED. This matter shall be dropped from this court's March 27, 2014 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on May 15, 2014.

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 March 25, 2104 through and including May 15, 2014.

IT IS SO ORDERED.