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Parties Involved:
USA
Plaintiff
Matthew Ziglar
Defendant

Document Text:

Waiver of Defendant’s Personal Presence- 1

[Proposed] Order Thereon

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MICHAEL E. MITCHELL, #240199

MITCHELL LAW GROUP, INC.

335 W. Shaw Avenue, Suite A

Fresno, California 93704

Telephone: (559) 222-2424

Facsimile: (559) 222-2434

Attorney for Defendant 

MATTHEW ZIGLAR

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

vs.

MATTHEW ZIGLAR, 

Defendant. 

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Case No. 6:16-mj-054-MJS

WAIVER OF DEFENDANT’S 

PERSONAL PRESENCE; REQUEST 

TO APPEAR VIA VIDEO 

CONFERENCING; ORDER THEREON

Date: January 25, 2017

Time: 10:00 a. m. 

Dept: Yosemite Magistrate Court

TO THE ABOVE-ENTITLED COURT:

The Defendant MATTHEW ZIGLAR (“Mr. Ziglar”) will enter a plea to a charge of wet 

reckless driving, TITLE 36 CFR § 4.2(b), incorporating Cal Veh. Code § 23103 pursuant to Veh. 

Code § 23013.5.

Mr. Ziglar, has advised of his right to be present at all stages of proceedings, including, 

but not limited to, presentation of and arguments on questions of fact and law, and to be 

confronted by and to cross-examine all witnesses, hereby waives the right to be present at the 

hearing of any motion or other proceeding in this cause. Examples of hearings concerning 

which the defendant waives the right to be present include initial appearance, when the case is 

set for trial, when a continuance is ordered, during a plea or change of plea, during sentencing or 

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[Proposed] Order Thereon

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any case disposition, when a motion for reduction of bail or for a personal recognizance release 

is heard. 

The undersigned Defendant requests the Court to proceed during every absence of the 

Defendant that the Court may permit pursuant to this waiver, and hereby agrees that his interest 

is represented at all times by the presence of his attorney the same as if the Defendant were 

personally present in court, and further agrees that notice to Defendant’s attorney that 

Defendant’s presence in court on a particular day at a particular time is required is notice to the 

Defendant of the requirement of Defendant’s appearance at that time and place. 

Mr. Ziglar is 33 years old and has no prior criminal record. 

Mr. Ziglar currently resides in San Diego, California. The distance from his home to the 

court located at Yosemite National Park (YNP) is approximately 850 miles. He was on vacation 

at YNP when this incident occurred. He is unable to appear in person at the scheduled hearing 

on January 25, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., due to a number of reasons.

Mr. Ziglar would suffer a number of professional, personal and financial hardships if he

had to return to YNP for the plea hearing. 

He is currently employed at NuVasive, Inc. He is the Senior Associate Product Manager. 

Mr. Ziglar’s job duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Managing a line of 

medical products (spine implants), the day-to-day progress of the product and coordinate 

technical product development. All finance and engineering of the products go through him first.

In order to attend Court, he would have to miss at least three days of work for travel and 

attendance at the Court hearing. 

The travel expenses he would have to incur would include rental car expenses and gas to 

travel to and from the park, as well as lodging and meals. 

Accordingly, Mr. Ziglar requests to appear via video conference from a United States 

District Court near his home in San Diego, California to enter his plea and be sentenced on 

January 25, 2017. 

Counsel has been informed by Susan St. Vincent that the Park Service is not objecting to 

Mr. Ziglar appearing via Rule 43 waiver. 

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DATED: December 22, 2016 /s/ Matthew Ziglar_______________

Matthew Ziglar, Defendant

DATED: December 22, 2016 /s/ Michael E. Mitchell____________

Michael E. Mitchell

Attorney for Defendant

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court Grants Defendant’s request for a Rule 43 

waiver of appearance on January 25, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. to enter a plea and be sentenced in case 

number 6:16-MJ-054-MJS on the condition that he and his counsel successfully arrange to have 

Defendant appear at said hearing via the Court’s existing secure video conferencing network and 

equipment at a U.S. District Court and that the written plea agreement be received by the court 

three (3) days prior to the hearing. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 11, 2017 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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