STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING CASE AND EXCLUDING TIME

GARLAND E. BURRELL, Jr., District Judge.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and among Assistant United States Attorney Christiaan Highsmith, counsel for Plaintiff, Dina Santos, counsel for Jose Vasquez, and Jeffrey L. Staniels, counsel for Feliciano Ochoa Reyes, that this case be dropped from this court's calendar for June 24, 2016, and be continued until September 16, 2016 for status.

Both Ms. Santos and Mr. Staniels have recently been appointed to assume representation of their respective clients. Discovery in the case exceeds 700 pages and involves applications, recordings and monitor's reports for four wiretaps. Mr. Reyes is also charged in a related case (for which a continuance request is being separately prepared) which involves in excess of 3500 pages of discovery. Given the recency of appointment and the extent of discovery the court is requested to find that a continuance to permit new counsel to prepare outweighs the right of the defendants and the public for a speedy trial and that the length of the continuance sought is reasonable.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

The requested continuance is hereby GRANTED. The court finds that the reason for time requested is reasonable and that the interests of justice advanced by granting this continuance outweigh the interests of the defendants and the public in a speedy trial. This matter is continued until September 16, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. for status conference. Time for trial under the Speedy Trial Act is excluded pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h) (7) (B) (iv), Local Code T-4.

IT IS SO ORDERED.