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Parties Involved:
William Lee Muhammad
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff

Document Text:

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MCGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

JEFFREY A. SPIVAK

Assistant United States Attorney

2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401

Fresno, CA 93721

Telephone: (559) 497-4000

Facsimile: (559) 497-4099

Attorneys for Plaintiff

United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

WILLIAM LEE MUHAMMAD,

 Defendant.

CASE NO. 1:19-CR-258-LJO-SKO

STIPULATION REGARDING EXCLUDABLE 

TIME PERIODS UNDER SPEEDY TRIAL ACT; 

FINDINGS AND ORDER

DATE: January 21, 2020

TIME: 1:00 p.m.

COURT: Hon. Sheila K. Oberto

STIPULATION

Plaintiff United States of America, by and through its counsel of record, and defendant, by and 

through defendant’s counsel of record, hereby stipulate as follows: 

1. By previous order, this matter was set for status on January 21, 2020. 

2. By this stipulation, defendant now moves to continue the status conference until April 20, 

2020, and to exclude time between January 21, 2020, and April 20, 2020, under Local Code T4. 

3. The parties agree and stipulate, and request that the Court find the following: 

a) The government has represented that the discovery associated with this case 

includes several hundreds of pages of investigative reports, thousands of hours of intercepted 

phone calls; and other related discovery relating to this case from several investigative agencies. 

This case was investigated for approximately 12 months. All of this discovery has been either 

produced directly to counsel and/or made available for inspection and copying.

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b) Counsel for defendant desires additional time to consult with his client, review the 

current charges, conducted investigation and research related to the charges, to review discovery, 

discuss potential resolutions with his client, and consider and prepare pretrial motions. 

c) Counsel for defendant believes that failure to grant the above-requested 

continuance would deny him/her the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation, taking 

into account the exercise of due diligence.

d) The government does not object to the continuance.

e) 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. 

f) For the purpose of computing time under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, 

et seq., within which trial must commence, the time period of January 21, 2020 to April 20, 

2020, inclusive, is deemed excludable pursuant to 18 U.S.C.§ 3161(h)(7)(A), B(iv) [Local Code 

T4] because it results from a continuance granted by the Court at defendant’s request 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 defendant in a speedy trial.

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4. 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 period within which a trial 

must commence.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: January 15, 2020 MCGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

/s/ JEFFREY A. SPIVAK

JEFFREY A. SPIVAK

Assistant United States Attorney

Dated: January 15, 2020 /s/ RICHARD BESHWATE

RICHARD BESHWATE

Counsel for Defendant 

William Lee Muhammad

(as approved by email 1/15/2020)

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 15, 2020 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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