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, Paul Hemesath, Assistant United States Attorney, attorney for plaintiff and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant David Dixon that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for February 9, 2018, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference/potential entry of plea on February 16, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. Counsel for Mr. Dixon and the government are finalizing a plea agreement. To do so, additional investigation is being performed that impacts defendant's potential guideline calculations.

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 trail 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, February 7, 2018, up to and including February 16, 2018.

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 February 9, 2018 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on February 16, 2018.

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 February 7, 2018, through and including February 16, 2018.

IT IS SO ORDERED.