STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING CASE AND EXCLUDING TIME

MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR., District Judge.

IT IS HEREBY stipulated between the United States of America through its undersigned counsel, Cameron Desmond, Assistant United States Attorney, attorney for plaintiff, and Kyle Knapp, attorney for defendant Anthony Ellis that the previously-scheduled status conference, currently set for January 3, 2019, be vacated and that the matter be set for status conference on February 21, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

Mr. Ellis recently appeared in this jurisdiction to face the charges against him and initial discovery was provided to counsel on December 20, 2018. Counsel have conferred and this continuance is requested to investigate and evaluate the volume of received discovery in this case, meet with his client and further investigate possible defenses.

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, December 31, 2018, up to and including February 21, 2019.

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 January 3, 2019 criminal calendar and re-calendared for status conference on February 28, 2019.

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 December 31, 2018, through and including February 21, 2019.

IT IS SO ORDERED.