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Parties Involved:
Maksim Nikulshin
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff

Document Text:

Stipulation and [Proposed] Order

for Waiver of Appearance

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HEATHER E. WILLIAMS, Bar #122664

Federal Defender

HANNAH R. LABAREE, Bar # 294338

Assistant Federal Defender

Counsel Designated for Service

801 I Street, 3rd Floor

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 498-5700

Attorneys for Defendant

MAKSIM NIKULSHIN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

MAKSIM NIKULSHIN,

Defendant.

Case No. 6:16-mj-014-MJS-1

STIPULATION FOR RULE 43 WAIVER OF 

APPEARANCE; ORDER

Judge: Honorable MICHAEL J. SENG 

TO: PHILLIP A. TALBERT, Acting United States Attorney, and SUSAN ST. 

VINCENT, Acting Legal Officer

Pursuant to Federal Criminal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(b)(2), Maksim Nikulshin, 

having been advised of his right to be present at all stages of the proceedings, hereby requests 

that this Court permit him to waive his right to personally appear for plea, trial, or sentencing,

and be allowed to appear via video conference. Mr. Nikulshin agrees that his interests shall be 

represented at all times by the presence of his attorney, the Office of the Federal Defender for the 

Eastern District of California, the same as if he were personally present, and requests that this 

Court allow his attorney-in-fact to represent his interests at all times. The government has no 

objection to this request. 

Mr. Nikulshin’s next court date is October 11, 2016, for status. 

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Mr. Nikulshin has been charged with being present in a park area when under the 

influence of alcohol to a degree that may endanger oneself or another person, or damage property 

or park resources, in violation of 36 C.F.R. § 4.12; failing to report a motor vehicle accident 

resulting in property damage to the superintendent as soon as practicable, in violation of 36 

C.F.R. § 4.4(a); operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol to a degree that 

renders the operator incapable of safe operation, in violation of 36 C.F.R. § 4.23(a)(1); and 

operating a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration greater than or equal to 0.08, in violation 

of 36 C.F.R. § 4.23(a)(2). This is Mr. Nikulshin’s second request for a waiver of appearance. 

See CR 4. 

Mr. Nikulshin resides in Brooklyn, New York. He works part-time as a carpenter, 

earning only approximately $600 per month. Mr. Nikulshin’s wife works as a model and her 

income varies greatly. It would be a serious hardship for Mr. Nikulshin to travel to Yosemite, 

both because of the distance and the cost of not only travel, but also lodging and subsistence. By 

statute the Marshals only pay for one-way transportation to the district where a defendant’s 

appearance is required. 1See 18 U.S.C. § 4285. They will not pay for the defendant’s return trip. 

They do not provide lodging, nor will they pay for subsistence upon the defendant’s arrival in the 

destination district. 

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1 Section 4285 provides that any federal judge or magistrate judge, upon a condition that a 

released person appear before that court, may “direct the United States marshal to arrange for 

that person’s means of noncustodial transportation or furnish the fare for such transportation to 

the place where [her] appearance is required. . . .” See 18 U.S.C. § 4285. The judge should be 

satisfied after appropriate inquiry that the “defendant is financially unable to provide the 

necessary transportation to appear before the required court on [her] own” and that the interests 

of justice

would be served by granting such request. Id.

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Accordingly, Mr. Nikulshin respectfully requests that the Court grant a waiver of his 

right and obligation to be personally present and that he be permitted to appear via video 

conference from the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.

Dated: September 15, 2016 Respectfully submitted, 

HEATHER E. WILLIAMS 

Federal Defender 

/s/Hannah R. Labaree

HANNAH R. LABAREE

Assistant Federal Defender

Dated: September 15, 2016 /s/ Susan St. Vincent

SUSAN ST. VINCENT

Acting Yosemite Legal Officer

Counsel for the Plaintiff

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O R D E R

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the above request for Defendant’s waiver of 

personal appearance and request to appear via video conference at plea or sentencing 

hearings in Case No. 6:16-mj-00017-MJS, is hereby accepted and adopted as the 

Order of this Court. The Court reserves judgment as to whether Defendant may 

participate in trial via video.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 16, 2016 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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