IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

FORT WORTH DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA §

§

 Plaintiff, §

§

v. § No. 4:22-CR-00253-P

§

LAUREN WHITNEY MOORE (01) §

§

 Defendant. §

SCHEDULING ORDER FOR CRIMINAL TRIAL AND PRETRIAL ORDER

1. This case is set for jury trial at 9:00 am on Monday, October 3, 2022 in 

Fort Worth, Texas, 4th Floor Courtroom.

2. All discovery in this cause requested pursuant to and required by Federal Rule of 

Criminal Procedure 16 must be completed within a reasonable time prior to trial. Absent a 

compelling excuse, any evidence for which production or disclosure was timely requested pursuant 

to and required by Rule 16 but not disclosed within a reasonable time prior to trial will not be 

admitted at trial. 

3. Except as provided in this paragraph, Defendant’s pretrial motions must be filed no 

later than September 12, 2022. Defendant shall not file any motion for, or to compel, discovery, 

disclosure, or production unless (i) Defendant has first made written request of the government for 

the desired discovery, disclosure, or production, which written request must specify a time and 

date prior to the motions deadline when discovery, disclosure, or production of the items is desired 

in the office of the U.S. Attorney and (ii) the government has failed to comply with the request. 

The government must respond in writing to any request made in accordance with this paragraph 

within seven (7) days of receiving the request. The government shall indicate either that the 

discovery will be allowed or the disclosure or production will be made as requested or that the 

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request or portions thereof are objectionable, in which case the government must briefly state the 

legal basis for the government’s objections. Lack of actual possession of an item by the 

government will not be accepted as a reason for non-production if the government can obtain 

possession of the item or, if copiable, a copy of the item upon the government’s request. If the 

government does not comply with such request, the defendant will be permitted to file a motion to 

compel or for discovery or disclosure. Any such motion must be accompanied by copies of any 

pertinent requests that were previously served by the movant and verification as to service of each 

such request and the results of the efforts to obtain the desired discovery, disclosure, or production 

pursuant to each such request.

4. The government shall not file any motion for, or to compel, discovery, disclosure, 

or production unless (i) it has first made written request of the defendant for the desired discovery, 

disclosure, or production, which written request shall specify a time and date prior to the motions 

deadline when discovery, disclosure, or production, as applicable, of the items is desired, and (ii) 

the defendant has failed to comply with the request. The defendant shall respond, either orally or 

in writing, to any request made in accordance with such request within five (5) government 

working days of receiving same. The defendant shall indicate either that the discovery will be 

allowed or the disclosure or production will be made as requested or that the request or portions 

thereof are objectionable, in which case the defendant shall briefly state the legal basis for the 

objections. Lack of actual possession of an item by the defendant will not be accepted as a reason 

for non-production if the defendant can obtain possession of the original or a copy of the item upon 

request. If the defendant does not comply with such request, the government will be permitted to 

file a motion to compel, or for discovery or disclosure for those items in dispute. Any such motion 

must be accompanied by copies of any pertinent requests that were previously served by the 

movant and verification as to service of each such request and the results of the efforts to obtain 

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the desired discovery, disclosure, or production pursuant to each such request.

5. The government shall file a response to every pretrial motion filed by the defendant 

that is not ruled on before the government’s response to the motion is due. The government’s 

response must indicate whether it is opposed to the motion and, if the motion is opposed, must 

include argument and authority in support of the government’s opposition. The government’s 

response to any pretrial motion filed by the defendant must be filed within fourteen (14) days

after the motion is filed. See N.D. TEX. CRIM. R. 47.1(e). If the government is prompted to file a 

pretrial motion by reason of a pretrial motion filed by the defendant, the government must file its 

motion within fourteen (14) days after Defendant’s motion is filed.

6. Defendant shall file a response to any pretrial motion filed by the government 

within seven (7) days after receipt of such motion.

7. Before a party files a motion for continuance, he shall confer with counsel for 

all other parties concerning what dates each cannot be available for trial over the ensuing 

ninety-day period. The party’s motion for continuance shall then set out those dates.

8. All briefs filed with the Court shall comply with the most recent edition of The 

Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Particularly, counsel are directed to provide, where 

applicable, the subsections of cited statutes, and to provide pinpoint citations when citing cases, 

i.e.,provide the page where the stated legal proposition can be found. See The BLUEBOOK: A

UNIFORM SYSTEM OF CITATION B4.1.2, AT 910, R. 3.3(A), AT 6970 (Columbia Law Review Ass’n. 

et al., eds., 19th ed. 2010) (regarding pinpoint citations and subsections, respectively). Furthermore, 

if a brief contains citations to unpublished opinions or to LEXIS, counsel must attach copies of 

those cases to the brief.

9. Pursuant to Local Criminal Rule 47.1, certificates of conference must address all 

parties, including co-defendants, if any, affected by the requested relief.

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10. The government must file a written designation of its expert witnesses, if any, no 

later than September 12, 2022. Each defendant must file a written designation of his expert 

witnesses, if any, no later than September 19, 2022. Each designation must contain a brief 

statement of the subject matter to be covered by each expert witness. Any motions challenging 

these designations, including challenges under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, must be filed by the 

deadline for filing pretrial motion established in this Order1.

11. Northern District of Texas Local Criminal Rule 16.1(a) notwithstanding, a set of 

copies of all copiable exhibits that a party intends to offer at trial, except those offered solely for 

impeachment, must be bound in three-ring binders and exchanged with all other parties no later 

than 12:00 noon on the Friday prior to trial; and a like set must be delivered to the courtroom 

at the time of jury selection.

12. Each exhibit must be labeled prior to trial by a gummed label containing the identity 

of the offering party, the exhibit number, and the cause number.

13. Northern District of Texas Local Criminal Rule 16.1(b) notwithstanding, the parties 

must file with the Clerk and deliver to all other parties and the court reporter, separate lists of 

exhibits and witnesses, except those offered solely for impeachment, no later than 12:00 noon on 

the Thursday prior to trial.

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 The witness lists to be filed by the parties must list all witnesses, 

including timely designated expert witnesses, the party may call at trial and contain a brief 

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If a party expects to elicit testimony from a witness regarding street values of drugs, drugdistribution practices of individuals or groups, the meaning of words and phrases used by persons in the 

distribution of drugs, the meaning of drugs notes, gang activities and practices, and the like, the party must 

designate that witness as an expert.

2 No additions or substitutions to these lists may be made after the deadline without leave of 

Court. Additionally, if a party desires to make additions or substitutions to these lists after they are filed 

with the clerk, the party should file an amended list that entirely supersedes the original list, rather than 

simply filing a supplemental list naming only the additions and/or substitutions.

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statement of the subject matter to be covered by each witness. Each party’s exhibit list shall be in 

the same format as the Court’s sample exhibit list, which is attached as Exhibit A to this Order.

14. If any electronic equipment is needed in the courtroom, notify Brian Rebecek, Fort 

Worth Division Manager, at 817-850-6613.

15. Counsel for the government shall deliver to the Court and to defense counsel each 

evening (if not earlier) a list of witnesses he in good faith anticipates calling the next trial day. All 

Jencks Act material pertaining to each witness on the list should be delivered at the same time if it 

has not already been delivered pursuant to prior urgings of the Court. The Court strongly 

encourages the early production to defense counsel of any notes made by government agents 

regarding interviews with witnesses that the government expects to call to testify at trial. Also, at 

the close of each day’s testimony, the government shall proffer in writing, in as close to verbatim 

form as possible, any statements that it expects to introduce on the next trial day pursuant to the 

following:

a. Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(A), to the extent that they involve 

potential Bruton problems; and 

b. Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E).

The Court will hear objections thereto by Defendant(s) either at that time or prior to the 

commencement of testimony the following day.

16. To minimize time after commencement of the trial in resolving differences in the 

language to be included in the Court’s charge to the jury,

a. Counsel for the United States of America shall deliver to counsel for 

defendant by September 26, 2022, a copy of its proposed Court’s charge to 

the jury.

b. Counsel for defendants shall deliver to counsel for the United States of 

America by September 27, 2022, (i) a statement, prepared with specificity, 

of any objection his client had to any part of the proposed charge counsel 

for United States of America has delivered pursuant to this paragraph and 

(ii) the text of all additional instructions his client wishes to have included 

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in the court’s charge to the jury. Each objection and each additional 

instruction shall be accompanied by citations to authorities supporting 

defendant’s objection or request.

c. By 10:00 a.m. on September 28, 2022, the lead attorneys for the parties to 

this action shall meet face-to-face in the office of the United States Attorney 

for the purposes of (i) discussing, and trying to resolve, differences between 

the parties as to language to be included in the Court’s charge to the jury 

and (ii) identifying areas of disagreement that cannot be resolved. The 

meeting shall be held for a sufficient length of time for there to be a 

meaningful discussion of all areas of disagreement and a meaningful 

attempt to accomplish agreement. Each attorney shall cooperate fully in all 

matters related to the meeting.

d. By 2:00 p.m. on September 28, 2022, counsel for United States of America 

shall file a document titled “Agreed Charge,” which in a single document 

shall contain, in logical sequence, all language to be included in the charge, 

including jury instructions and jury questions, about which the parties do 

not have disagreement and all language either party wishes to have included 

in the charge about which there is disagreement. All language of the 

proposed charge about which there is agreement shall be (i) in bold face, 

(ii) preceded by an indication of the identity of the party requesting the 

language, and (iii) followed by a listing of citations of authorities in favor 

of and in opposition to the proposed language. Furthermore, on the same 

day by 2:00 p.m., counsel for the United States of America shall submit an 

electronic (WordPerfect or Word compatible) version of this document to 

pittman_orders@txnd.uscourts.gov.

e. Limited Number of Motions in Limine: Motions in limine should not be 

filed as a matter of course. If filed, counsel must file them with the Court 

and serve them on the opposing party by September 6, 2022. Responses 

must be filed with the Court and served on the opposing party by 

September 12, 2022. Replies to responses are not permitted except by 

leave of Court. Parties may file motions in limine on no more than TEN 

(10) discrete topics (no subparts) that are actually in dispute. (good faith 

compliance with the conference requirements of Local Rule 7.1 will help to 

narrow issues that are actually in dispute). Motions in limine that contain 

boilerplate requests, that exceed ten topics or that cover undisputed issues 

will be stricken.

17. After the parties have closed, they shall meet for the purpose of preparing an agreed 

index of all exhibits admitted into evidence during the course of the trial. As to each admitted 

exhibit, the index must contain the exhibit number, the name of the offering party, the name of the 

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sponsoring witness, and a description of the exhibit. The exhibit index must be delivered to the 

courtroom deputy for delivery to the jury at the commencement of deliberations.

18. Except in the case of a testifying defendant or government case agent, the counsel 

who calls a witness shall have no further discussions with that witness concerning any aspect of 

the case or his testimony after the witness has been tendered for cross-examination until such time 

as the witness has been tendered back for re-direct examination.

19. The parties are hereby put on notice that Judge Pittman will take the bench promptly 

at the appointed time for each session without waiting until the clerk or courtroom security officer 

has called the roll or otherwise ascertained the presence of all necessary parties. If tardiness 

becomes a problem, appropriate fines will be imposed.

20. Bench conferences must be kept to a minimum. Counsel must state the legal bases 

for their objections without elaboration or argument, unless invited.

21. Objections to exhibits and testimony may occasionally be met with the following 

procedure: admission of the exhibit or the testimony with the understanding that the objection will 

be treated as a motion to strike, with a ruling on the motion expressly reserved to the end of the 

day’s testimony when the matter may be fully discussed out of the hearing of the jury. An exhibit 

so treated will not be published to the jury until the Court has ruled on the motion to strike.

22. The Court will discourage repetitive examination of a witness, whether on cross or 

direct, and will strongly admonish or sanction any counsel who wastes the time of his colleagues, 

the Court, and the jury by failing to have witnesses present and prepared to testify; by hunting for 

or causing a witness to hunt for exhibits; by failing to have audio or video equipment tested, cuedup, and ready-to-go; by failing to be timely in attendance; by attempting to argue the case or make 

a speech to the jury during an objection; or in any other manner.

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23. The parties shall carefully observe the rules of courtroom decorum that are attached 

as Exhibit B to this Order. These rules are in addition to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 

and the Local Rules of the Northern District of Texas.

24. No later than one week prior to trial, each party shall provide to the reporter a copy 

of the party’s witness list and a glossary of all terms likely to be uttered on the record during the 

trial that are technical, scientific, medical, or otherwise uncommon.

25. Voir dire in this case will be conducted initially by the Court, with each party being 

allotted fifteen (15) minutes for supplementary voir dire.

SO ORDERED on this September 1, 2022.

MARK T. PITTMAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

FORT WORTH DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA §

§

 Plaintiff, §

§

v. § Criminal Action No. 1:23-CR-00001-P

§

JOHN DOE §

§

 Defendant. §

DEFENDANT JOHN DOE’S EXHIBIT LIST

EXHIBIT 

NUMBER

SPONSORING

WITNESS

DESCRIPTION OF 

EXHIBIT OFFERED IDENTIFIED ADMITTED

1 Jane Doe Bill of Sale dtd 1/5/92 ___________ ___________ ___________

2 Sally Doe Contract dtd 1/9/92 ___________ ___________ ___________

EXHIBIT “A”

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COURTROOM DECORUM

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Northern District of Texas

(a) The requirements stated herein are not all-inclusive, but are intended to emphasize and supplement the ethical obligations of counsel 

under the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Local Rules of the Northern District of Texas (LR 83.16-83.18, CrR 53.1-53.3), 

and the time-honored customs of experienced trial counsel.

(b) When appearing in this Court, all counsel (including, where applicable, all persons at counsel table) shall abide by the following, 

unless excused by the presiding judge:

(1) Stand as Court is opened, recessed, or adjourned.

(2) Stand when the jury enters or retires from the courtroom.

(3) Stand when addressing, or being addressed by, the Court.

(4) Stand at the lectern while examining any witness, except that counsel may approach the clerk’s desk or the witness for 

purposes of handling or tendering exhibits.

(5) Stand at the lectern while making opening statements or closing arguments.

(6) Address all remarks to the Court, not to opposing counsel.

(7) Avoid disparaging personal remarks or acrimony toward opposing counsel and remain wholly detached from any illfeeling between the litigants or witnesses.

(8) Refer to all persons, including witnesses, other counsel, and the parties by their surnames and not by their first or given 

names.

(9) Only one attorney for each party may examine or cross examine each witness. The attorney stating objections, if any, 

during direct examination will be the attorney recognized for cross examination.

(10) Any counsel who calls a witness shall have no further discussions with that witness concerning any aspect of the case or 

his testimony after the witness has been tendered for cross-examination until such time as the witness has been tendered 

back for re-direct examination.

(11) Request permission before approaching the bench.

(12) Any paper or exhibit not previously marked for identification must be marked before it is tendered to a witness for 

examination, and any exhibit offered in evidence must be handed to opposing counsel when offered.

(13) In making objections counsel must state only the legal grounds for the objection and must withhold further comment or 

argument unless elaboration is requested by the Court.

(14) When examining a witness, counsel may not repeat the answer given by the witness.

(15) Offers of, or requests for, a stipulation must be made privately, not within the hearing of the jury.

(16) In opening statements and in arguments to the jury, counsel may not express personal knowledge or opinion concerning 

any matter in issue (i.e., don’t say “I think” or “I believe,” etc.) and, may not read or purport to read from deposition or 

trial transcripts.

(17) Counsel must admonish all persons at counsel table that gestures, facial expressions, audible comments, or the like, as 

manifestations of approval or disapproval during the testimony of witnesses, or at any other time, are absolutely 

prohibited.

(18) No one, including attorneys, parties, and witnesses, may bring food or drink (except bottled water) into the courtroom, 

nor may they chew gum.

EXHIBIT “B”

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