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Parties Involved:
Kari Sonovich
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States v. Sonovich, Continue Status Conference to 

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JAMES R. GREINER, ESQ. 

CALIFORNIA STATE BAR NUMBER 123357 

LAW OFFICES OF JAMES R. GREINER 

1024 IRON POINT ROAD 

FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA 95630 

TELEPHONE: (916) 357-6701 

FAX: (916) 920-7951 

E mail: jaygreiner@midtown.net 

ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT 

KARI SONOVICH 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,) CR.NO.S-14-23--JAM 

 ) 

PLAINTIFF, ) STIPULATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES TO 

 ) CONTINUE THE STATUS CONFERENCE TO 

 v. ) TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016 WITH 

 ) EXCLUSION OF TIME FROM THE SPEEDY 

KARI SONOVICH, ) TRIAL ACT AND FINDINGS OF FACT AND 

 ) ORDER 

 ) 

DEFENDANT. ) 

 ) 

_________________________) 

The parties to this litigation, the United States of 

America, represented by Assistant United States Attorney, Jean 

M. Hobler, and for the defendant, KARI SONOVICH, James R. 

Greiner, hereby agree and stipulate to the following1

: 

 

1

 The government requested that the format presented in this stipulation 

be used by the parties. 

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 1-By previous order, this matter was set for 

status on Tuesday, December 15, 2015, see docket entry number 

35. 

 2. By this Stipulation, the defendant now moves 

to continue the status conference until Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 

at 9:15 a.m., and to continue to exclude time pursuant to the 

Speedy Trial Act between Tuesday, December 15, 2015 and Tuesday, 

April 26, 2016, under Local Codes T-2 (complexity) and T-4 (time 

for adequate attorney preparation), as was done on February 6, 

2014 (Docket # 9) and September 30, 2014 (Docket # 26) and 

February 17, 2015 (Docket # 32), and July 24, 2015 (Docket # 

35)respectively. The government has produced the following 

voluminous amount of discovery in this case: 

 a- A CD with 10,970 pages of discovery has 

been produced to the defense to date and 

 b- the related case of: USA v. Vassallo, 09-

179; SEC v. Vassallo,09-665; USA v. Sanders, 090-459 and USA 

v. Kenitzer, 09-459, there is approximately 65,000 pages of 

discovery and 

 c- In addition, the government had issued to 

Google a search warrant for two e mail addresses, the government 

produced 7 DVD’s of information that were in zip drive (meaning 

a lot of information). The defense completed the transfer of the 

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7 DVD’s to an external 4 TB hard drive (so the zip drives could 

be open in full) by the early part of November 2014 and has been 

reviewing the information since that time. 

 d- The government has recently produced 

(June, 2015) additional discovery consisting of e mails from 

Google of the g-mail account of Joseph Birch. A rough estimate 

of the number of e mails, since review of the g-mail account has 

not fully occurred, is that there may be upwards between 5,000 

to 9,000 e mails (there is approximately 1,201 Mb of documents 

produced). 

 3. All of this discovery is being reviewed and 

being reviewed with the client which is generating additional 

investigation and potential leads to investigate by the defense 

which requires the additional time to adequately prepare this 

case and to adequately discuss the case with the client. 

 4. In addition, the additional investigation 

requires sufficient reasonable time to adequately investigate 

since some of the investigation is out of the State of 

California, for example, Nevada, Washington State, and in 

addition, there is investigation outside the United States which 

requires further additional reasonable amount of time to 

adequately investigate. 

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 5. The parties agree and stipulate to the 

following facts and request the Court to find the following: 

 a. The government has produced discovery to date 

which consists of 10,970 pages and 

 b. the related cases of: USA v. Sanders, 090-459, 

USA v. Kenitzer, 09-459, USA v. Vassallo, 09-179 and SEC v. 

Vassallo,09-665; there is approximately 65,000 pages of 

discovery and 

 c. The 7 DVD’s in zip drive which have been 

transferred to a 4 TB external hard drive that as a 

conservative estimate has over approximately 250,000 documents. 

 d. The government has recently produced (June, 

2015) additional discovery consisting of e mails from Google of 

the g-mail account of Joseph Birch. A rough estimate of the 

number of e mails, since review of the g-mail account has not 

fully occurred, is that there may be upwards between 5,000 to 

9,000 e mails (there is approximately 1,201 Mb of documents 

produced). 

 e. Counsel for defendant Kari Sonovich needs 

time, to continue to review all of the discovery described 

above, to review the discovery with the client and investigator, 

to continue to carry out and modify as investigation continues 

the investigation plan, to conduct investigation into this case, 

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do research, which includes legal research, in this case, and to 

otherwise do review and investigation, using due diligence, that 

this complex case requires. 

 f. Counsel for defendant Kari Sonovich represents 

that the failure to grant the above requested continuance would 

deny counsel for the defendant Kari Sonovich the reasonable time 

necessary for effective preparation, taking into account the 

exercise of due diligence. 

 g. The government, based on all of the above, 

does not object to the continuance. 

 h. Based on the above stated findings, the ends 

of justice are 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. 

 i. For the purpose of computing the time under 

the Speedy Trial Act, Title 18 U.S.C. section 3161, et seq., 

within which trial must commence, the time period from Tuesday, 

December 15, 2015, to and including Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 

inclusive, is deemed excludable pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. 

section 3161(h)(7)(A, (B)(ii) and (iv) corresponding to Local 

Codes T-2 and T-4, because it results from a continuance granted 

by the Court at defendants’ request, based on the facts provided 

and the totality of the complex case as set forth, and on the 

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basis of the Court’s finding that the ends of justice served by 

taking such action outweigh the best interest of the public and 

all of the defendants in a speedy trial. 

 6. 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. 

 Each attorney has granted James R. Greiner full 

authority to sign for each individual attorney. 

Respectfully submitted: 

 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER 

 UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 

DATED: 12-4-15 /s/ Jean M. Hobler 

 _____________________________________ 

 Jean M. Hobler 

 ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 

 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF 

DATED: 12-4-15 /s/ James R. Greiner 

 _______________________ 

 James R. Greiner 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 KARI SONOVICH 

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ORDER 

 

 

 IT IS SO FOUND AND ORDERED.

DATED: December 4, 2015 

 

 

 /s/ John A. Mendez_____ 

 JOHN A. MENDEZ 

 UNITED STATES 

 DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

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