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 Attorney Heiko Coppola, Counsel for Plaintiff, Christopher Booth counsel for defendant HERMAN KEESE, Michael Chastaine, counsel for DEBORAH BARNES, Christopher Cosca, counsel for defendant MARCUS LAW, Clemente Jimenez, counsel for defendant JAMES BRADLEY and David Fischer, counsel for defendant BRETT TOWNSEND, that the status conference scheduled for January 29, 2015 at 9:30 a.m., be vacated and the matter continued to this Court's criminal calendar on March 12, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. for further status conference. Discovery in this case is voluminous, consisting of hundreds of pages of discovery and several dozen hours of audio recordings. Counsels require additional time to review discovery and confer with their respective clients.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULTATED that the time for trial under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 3161 et seq. be tolled pursuant to Section 316(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 January 29, at 9:30 a.m., be vacated and the matter continued to March 12, 2015 at 9:30 a.m., for further status conference. The Court finds that the 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.