STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING CASE AND EXCLUDING TIME

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

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Assistant United States Attorney Jill Thomas, counsel for Plaintiff, and Jeffrey L. Staniels, counsel for Feliciano Ochoa Reyes, that this case be dropped from this court's calendar for January 27, 2017, and be continued until March 10, 2017, for status.

The parties expected a plea offer to be forthcoming and a plea agreement to be reached in time for change of plea proceedings to occur on January 27, 2017. (Mr. Reyes is also charged in a related case for which a continuance request is being separately but contemporaneously prepared.) However, previously assigned AUSA Amanda Beck recently left on maternity leave due to the unexpectedly somewhat early arrival of her baby.

Given this current development the court is requested to find that a continuance to permit disclosure and consideration of the anticipated plea offer outweighs the right of the defendants and the public to 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 and the amount of 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 March 10, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. for status conference. Time for trial under the Speedy Trial Act is excluded until March 10, 2017, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(B)(iv), Local Code T-4.

IT IS SO ORDERED.