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Parties Involved:
USA
Plaintiff
Ilie Zdragat
Defendant

Document Text:

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KENNY N. GIFFARD, State Bar No. 101727 

Attorney at Law 

2214 21st Street 

Sacramento, California 95818 

Telephone: (916) 456-3030 

 

Attorney for Defendant 

ILIE ZDRAGAT 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Case No. 2:12-cr-00387-TLN Plaintiffs, STIPULATION AND ORDER 

vs. 

ILIE ZDRAGAT, 

 

 Defendant. 

 / 

 It is hereby stipulated and agreed-to by the United States of America 

through HEIKO COPPOLA, Assistant United States Attorney, and defendant ILIE 

ZDRAGAT, by and through his attorney, KENNY N. GIFFARD, that the status 

conference set for Thursday, June 25, 2015, be continued to a status conference on 

Thursday, September 24, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. 

 This continuance is being requested because defense counsel needs time to 

prepare for trial, to review discovery, and to interview witnesses. The discovery 

already presented to the defendant in this case is voluminous and comprises numerous 

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cd’s which need to be translated, and several thousand pages of investigative reports. 

 Most recently, the government had provided this defendant with a number 

of cd’s and partially translated recordings of purported contacts between the defendant 

and others wherein activity related to the charged offenses was then occurring. Counsel 

for the defendant had to have those translated and the contents therein investigated in 

preparation for trial. This also included an investigation done of the associated activities 

of the government’s primary witness against the defendant. 

 Lastly, the parties stipulate and agree that the interests of justice served by 

granting this continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant in a 

speedy trial. (18 U.S.C. §3161(h)(A)). 

 Speedy trial time is to be excluded from the date of this order through the 

date of the status conference set for September 24, 2015, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 

3161(h)(7)(B)(iv) (reasonable time to prepare) (Local Code T4). 

Dated: June 22, 2015 

 Respectfully submitted, 

 

 /s/ Kenny N. Giffard 

 KENNY N. GIFFARD 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 ILIE ZDRAGAT 

 /s/ Kenny N. Giffard for 

 ______________________________________ HEIKO COPPOLA 

 Assistant U.S. Attorney 

ORDER 

 Based upon the stipulation of the parties and good cause there appearing 

therefrom, the Court hereby finds that the failure to grant a continuance in this case would 

deny defense counsel reasonable time necessary for effective preparation, taking into 

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account the exercise of due diligence. The Court specifically finds that the ends of justice 

served by the granting of such continuance outweigh the interests of the public and the 

defendant in a speedy trial. Based upon these findings and pursuant to the stipulation of 

the parties, the Court hereby adopts the stipulation of the parties in its entirety as its order. 

Time is excluded from computation of time within which the trial of this matter must be 

commenced beginning from the date of the stipulation through and including September 

24, 2015, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A) and (B)(iv) (reasonable time for defense 

counsel to prepare and Local Code T4.) A new status conference date is hereby set for 

September 24, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. 

Dated: June 23, 2015 

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