Filed: Apr. 20, 2018
Latest Update: Apr. 20, 2018
Summary: STIPULATION REGARDING EXCLUDABLE TIME PERIODS UNDER SPEEDY TRIAL ACT; FINDINGS AND ORDER TROY L. NUNLEY , District Judge . STIPULATION 1. This stipulation concerns the thirteen indicted cases noted in the caption, which all arise out of a common investigation. The thirteen cases concern twenty-seven different defendants, who are each identified in connection with their respective counsel in the signature pages of this stipulation. 2. By previous order, each of the thirteen matters was set
Summary: STIPULATION REGARDING EXCLUDABLE TIME PERIODS UNDER SPEEDY TRIAL ACT; FINDINGS AND ORDER TROY L. NUNLEY , District Judge . STIPULATION 1. This stipulation concerns the thirteen indicted cases noted in the caption, which all arise out of a common investigation. The thirteen cases concern twenty-seven different defendants, who are each identified in connection with their respective counsel in the signature pages of this stipulation. 2. By previous order, each of the thirteen matters was set ..
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STIPULATION REGARDING EXCLUDABLE TIME PERIODS UNDER SPEEDY TRIAL ACT; FINDINGS AND ORDER
TROY L. NUNLEY, District Judge.
STIPULATION
1. This stipulation concerns the thirteen indicted cases noted in the caption, which all arise out of a common investigation. The thirteen cases concern twenty-seven different defendants, who are each identified in connection with their respective counsel in the signature pages of this stipulation.
2. By previous order, each of the thirteen matters was set for status on April 26, 2018.
3. By this stipulation, the Government and counsel for the defendants now move to continue the status conferences to a series of new dates, as follows:
a) July 19, 2018: 2:17-cr-196; 2:17-cr-219; 2:18-cr-036; 2:18-cr-038
b) July 26, 2018: 2:17-cr-222; 2:18-cr-009
c) Aug. 2, 2018: 2:18-cr-044; 2:17-cr-234
d) Aug. 9, 2018: 2:18-cr-010; 2:18-cr-034; 2:18-cr-035; 2:18-cr-037; 2:18-cr-054
4. The parties also seek to exclude time between April 26, 2018, and the noted four dates, per the indictments listed under each date, under Local Codes T2 and T4.
5. The parties agree and stipulate, and request that the Court find the following:
a) As of this stipulation, the Government has produced more than 400 pages of written discovery to the defendants as a group, as well as 45 DVDs containing audio and visual surveillance recordings. (Each defendant has also received a copy of his or her criminal history, if one exists, and a small amount of additional written discovery has been produced to a subset of defendants.) Going forward, the Government anticipates producing hundreds of additional pages of discovery, which will include wiretap-related documents pursuant to the Court's April 12, 2018 protective order, and additional DVDs containing wiretap data and additional surveillance evidence.
b) At this time, the Government understands that the previously appointed discovery-coordination attorney (the "DCA") is processing the discovery that the Government has produced (as noted in the foregoing paragraph) and making it available to defense counsel.
c) At this time, Counsel for the defendants desire additional time to review the discovery now being distributed by the DCA. This review will enable counsel to begin reviewing the charges against their respective clients, conduct ancillary research, and consult with their respective clients on how to proceed in their cases.
d) Counsel for the defendants believe that failure to grant the above-requested continuances would deny them the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation, taking into account the exercise of due diligence.
e) The government does not object to the continuances.
f) Based on the above-stated findings, the ends of justice served by continuing the case as requested outweigh the interest of the public and the defendant in a trial within the original date prescribed by the Speedy Trial Act.
g) Further, given that the discovery in this case arises from a single investigation and is being produced to the twenty-seven defendants in the noted thirteen cases, the Court has previously designated the matter as "complex" for the purpose of providing an exclusion of time under Local Code T2. The parties submit that the foregoing stipulation provides a continued basis for such an exclusion.
h) For the purpose of computing time under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, et seq., within which trials must commence, the time periods of April 26, 2018 to the dates of July 19, July 26, August 2, and August 9, 2018, as noted in this stipulation, inclusive, are deemed excludable pursuant to 18 U.S.C.§ 3161(h)(7)(A), B(iv) [Local Code T4] because they result from continuances granted by the Court at the defendants' requests on the basis of the Court's finding that the ends of justice served by taking such action outweigh the best interest of the public and the defendants in speedy trials.
i) For the purpose of computing time under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, et seq., within which trials must commence, the time periods of April 26, 2018 to the dates of July 19, July 26, August 2, and August 9, 2018, as noted in this stipulation, inclusive, are deemed excludable pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), (ii) because they result from continuances granted by the Court at defendants' requests on the basis of the Court's finding that the matters are sufficiently complex that it would be unreasonable to expect adequate preparation absent the exclusions of time.
6. Nothing in this stipulation and order shall preclude a finding that other provisions of the Speedy Trial Act dictate that additional time periods are excludable from the periods within which trials must commence.
IT IS SO STIPULATED.
FINDINGS AND ORDER
IT IS SO FOUND AND ORDERED.
