Filed: Jul. 24, 2019
Latest Update: Jul. 24, 2019
Summary: STATUS REPORT AND STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING STATUS CONFERENCE MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR. , District Judge . STATUS REPORT On June 6, 2019, the Court granted Mr. Singh's Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis thus permitting him to withdraw his previously entered plea of guilty and sitting aside his conviction of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. 846 and 841(a)(1). Mr. Singh is not a citizen of the United States, and his conviction made him su
Summary: STATUS REPORT AND STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING STATUS CONFERENCE MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR. , District Judge . STATUS REPORT On June 6, 2019, the Court granted Mr. Singh's Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis thus permitting him to withdraw his previously entered plea of guilty and sitting aside his conviction of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. 846 and 841(a)(1). Mr. Singh is not a citizen of the United States, and his conviction made him sub..
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STATUS REPORT AND STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING STATUS CONFERENCE
MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR., District Judge.
STATUS REPORT
On June 6, 2019, the Court granted Mr. Singh's Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis thus permitting him to withdraw his previously entered plea of guilty and sitting aside his conviction of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1). Mr. Singh is not a citizen of the United States, and his conviction made him subject to mandatory deportation to India. The matter is on the Court's calendar for July 25, 2019, for a status conference. The parties want to continue the status conference to give them time in which to work out a resolution of the case that would permit Mr. Singh to plead guilty to an immigration neutral offense.
STIPULATION
The United States of America, through its counsel Assistant U. S. Attorney Justin L. Lee, and Navjot Singh, through his counsel Clyde M. Blackmon, stipulate that the status conference now scheduled for July 25, 2019, may be continued to September 12, 2019.
The parties further stipulate that the time from the currently set status conference on July 25, 2019, through September 12, 2019, the requested date for the continued status conference, should be excluded from the computation of the period of time within which the trial of this case should commence under the Speedy Trial Act. Counsel for the parties are in agreement that a continuance of the status conference is necessary, taking into account the exercise of due diligence, for both sides to effectively prepare the matter. See 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(B)(iv). For these reasons the parties stipulate that the ends of justice served by granting the requested continuance of the currently set status conference outweigh the best interests of the public and Mr. Singh in a speedy trial.
IT IS SO STIPULATED.
DATED: July 23, 2019 By: //s// Clyde M. Blackmon for
Justin L. Lee
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Dated: July 23, 2019. Rothschild Wishek & Sands, LLP
By: //s// Clyde M. Blackmon
CLYDE M. BLACKMON
Attorneys for Navjot Singh
ORDER
GOOD CAUSE APPEARING upon the stipulation of the parties it is ordered that the status conference currently scheduled for July 25, 2019, is continued to 10:00 a.m. on September 12, 2019, in courtroom 7.
For the reasons stipulated to by the parties, good cause exists pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(B)(iv); therefore, time is excluded under the Speedy Trial Act through September 12, 2019. Based on the stipulation of the parties, the Court finds that the interests of justice served by granting the requested continuance of the status conference outweigh the best interest of the public and Mr. Singh in a speedy trial. 18 U.S.C. 3161(h)(7)(B)(iv); Local Code T4.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
