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, Jason Hitt, Assistant United States Attorney, attorney for plaintiff, together with Dina Santos, attorney for defendant Juan Villanueva; Clemente Jimenez, attorney for defendant Jose Rodriguez-Rodriguez and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant Richard Lopez that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for August 17, 2017, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference on October 12, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.

Counsel have conferred and this continuance is requested to investigate and evaluate the volume of received discovery in this case, meet with their clients and further investigate possible defenses in this matter. In addition, it is anticipated that plea agreements will be forthcoming shortly and counsel needs time to fully evaluate them with their 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, November 22, 2016, up to and including February 2, 2017.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

The Stipulation of the parties is hereby accepted and the requested continuance is GRANTED. This matter shall be dropped from this court's August 17, 2017 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on October 12, 2017, at 9:30 a.m.

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 August 14, 2017, through and including October 12, 2017.

IT IS SO ORDERED.