STIPULATION AND ORDER VACATING DATE, CONTINUING CASE, AND EXCLUDING TIME

JOHN A. MENDEZ, District Judge.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Assistant United States Attorney, Cameron Desmond, Counsel for Plaintiff, and attorneys Clemente M. Jiménez, Counsel for Defendant Raymond Morin, and David Fischer, Counsel for Defendant Raul Diaz, that the status conference in this matter currently scheduled for December 4, 2018, at 9:15 a.m. be vacated, and the matter be continued to this court's criminal calendar on January 29, 2019, at 9:15 a.m. for further status conference and possible change of plea.

The parties will require additional time for review of discovery, conduct necessary investigation, and confer with their respective clients. Furthermore, defense counsel for Mr. Morin will require additional time to review a recently provided plea agreement.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED that time within which the trial of this case must be commenced under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 3161 et seq. be excluded from computation of time pursuant to Section 3161(h)(7)(A) and (B)(iv), (Local code T-4), and that the ends of justice served in granting the continuance and allowing the defendant further time to prepare outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant to a speedy trial.

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED, that the status conference in the above-entitled matter, scheduled for December 4, 2018, at 9:15 a.m., be vacated and the matter continued for further status conference on January 29, 2019, at 9:15 a.m. The Court finds that time under the Speedy Trial Act shall be excluded through that date in order to afford counsel reasonable time to prepare. Based on the parties' representations, the Court finds that the ends of justice served by granting a continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendants to a speedy trial.