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, Matthew Morris, Assistant United States Attorney, attorney for plaintiff, together with Alan Donato, attorney for defendant, Karapet Damaryan, and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant Garik Voskanyan, that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for April 8, 2016, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference on May 13, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

Counsel have conferred and this continuance is requested to allow recently retained counsel for Mr. Voskanyan to fully digest the discovery, review the plea offers with his client and comprehensively evaluate the case. That should be done in the next month.

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, April 6, 2016, up to and including May 13, 2016.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

[PROPOSED] ORDER

The Stipulation of the parties is hereby accepted and the requested continuance is GRANTED. This matter shall be dropped from this court's April 8, 2016 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on May 13, 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 April 6, 2016, through and including May 13, 2016.

IT IS SO ORDERED.