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Thomas H. Bienert, Jr (Cal. Bar No. 135311, admitted pro hac vice)

Whitney Z. Bernstein (Cal. Bar No. 304917, admitted pro hac vice)

BIENERT, MILLER & KATZMAN, PLC

903 Calle Amanecer, Suite 350

San Clemente, California 92673

Telephone: (949) 369-3700

Facsimile: (949) 369-3701

Email: tbienert@bmkattorneys.com

wbernstein@bmkattorneys.com

Attorneys for James Larkin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

United States of America,

Plaintiff,

v.

Michael Lacey, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. CR-18-00422-PHX-SPL-02

Hon. Steven P. Logan

DEFENDANT LARKIN’S JOINDER 

IN DEFENDANT BRUNST’S

OPPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT’S 

MOTION TO DEFER DISCLOSURE 

OF CARL FERRER’S JENCKS ACT 

STATEMENTS AND OBJECTIONS 

TO IN CAMERA FILING OF THE 

SAME, AND REQUEST FOR 

DISCLOSURE OF THE SAME (DOC. 

477) 

It is expected that excludable delay under 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(1) will occur as a result 

of this motion or an order based thereon, as explained more fully below.

Defendant James Larkin hereby joins in Defendant John Brunst’s Opposition to 

Government’s Motion to Defer Disclosure of Car Ferrer’s Jencks Act Statements and 

Objections to In Camera Filing of the Same, and Request for Disclosure of the Same (Doc. 

477) (“Opposition to In Camera Motion re Carl Ferrer’s Jencks Act Statements”). Mr. Larkin 

adopts the positions set forth in said Opposition to In Camera Motion re Carl Ferrer’s Jencks 

Act Statements as if fully set forth herein. 

Pursuant to the Scheduling Order in this case entered on May 2, 2018, the 

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government’s deadline for “[p]roduction of Jencks materials and witness impeachment 

material, if not produced sooner,” was February 25, 2019. See Doc. 131 at 2. Defendants 

filed a Joint Status Report on January 18, 2019 (Doc. 443), which the Court treated as a 

motion/request to modify the Scheduling Order (see Doc. 448). The government objected 

to Defendants’ request to continue Defendants’ upcoming deadline for four months (see, e.g., 

Doc. 446). At the January 25, 2019 status conference, the government continued to oppose 

Defendants’ requested continuance of the Scheduling Order, emphasizing the government’s 

intended compliance with the Scheduling Order:

As the scheduling order sets out, the government’s agreed to 

provide the defendants with Jencks material approximately 11 

months before trial. As Your Honor is aware, in most federal 

cases defendants aren’t given Jencks materials until after a witness 

has testified. We are giving it to them 11 months before trial.

January 25, 2019 Hearing Transcript at 12:22-13:3. The Court denied Defendants’ request 

for a continuance. See id. at 67:3-67:7 (“After carefully considering all of the issues, the 

motion, which is Document Number 443, will be denied. The current deadlines in the 

scheduling order that are spelled out in Document Number 131, the government and defense, 

I am ordering you both to continue to meet those deadlines.”). 

Then, just a few weeks later, the government filed a secret, in camera motion to modify, 

providing no explanation and plainly impacting Defendants’ ability to meet their obligations 

under the Scheduling Order. In effect, the government’s secret, in camera motion is a motion 

to modify the Scheduling Order. Further, at the January 25, 2019 status conference related 

to the Scheduling Order, not only did the government not disclose its need to modify the 

Scheduling Order, it also trumpeted its compliance with the Scheduling Order as a reason to 

deny Defendants’ requested continuance.

For all the foregoing reasons, as well as those laid out in Doc. 477, Mr. Larkin requests 

that the Motion to Defer Disclosure (believe to be Doc. 461) be disclosed to the defense so 

that Defendants may lodge further objections and briefing with the Court. In the interim, 

Mr. Larkin objects to the in camera filing of the Motion and opposes the Motion itself. He 

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further requests that Ferrer’s statements be immediately disclosed to the defense consistent 

with the Court’s Scheduling Order.

Dated: March 1, 2019

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Whitney Z. Bernstein

Whitney Z. Bernstein

Thomas H. Bienert, Jr.

Bienert, Miller & Katzman, PLC

Attorneys for James Larkin

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that on this 1st day of March 2019, I electronically transmitted a PDF version 

of this document to the Clerk of the Court, using the CM/ECF System, for filing and for 

transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants listed below.

/s/ Toni Thomas

Toni Thomas

Anne Michelle Chapman, anne@mscclaw.com

Erin E. McCampbell emccampbell@lglaw.com

Anthony R. Bisconti, tbisconti@bmkattorneys.com

Ariel A. Neuman, aan@birdmarella.com

Bruce S. Feder, bf@federlawpa.com

James C. Grant, jimgrant@dwt.com

Lee David Stein, lee@mscclaw.com

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Robert Corn-Revere bobcornever@dwt.com

Ronald Gary London, ronnielondon@dwt.com

Janey Henze Cook, janey@henzecookmurphy.com

John Lewis Littrell jlittrell@bmkattorneys.com

Seetha Ramachandran, Seetha.Ramachandran@srz.com

Thomas H. Bienert, Jr. tbienert@bmkattorneys.com

Whitney Z. Bernstein wbernstein@bmkattorneys.com

Gary S. Lincenberg, glincenberg@birdmarella.com

Gopi K. Panchapakesan, gpanchapakesan@birdmarella.com

Michael D. Kimerer, MDK@kimerer.com

Rhonda Elaine Neff, rneff@kimerer.com

Michael L. Piccarreta, mlp@pd-law.com

Stephen M. Weiss, sweiss@karpweiss.com

John Jacob Kucera, john.kucera@usdoj.gov

Kevin M. Rapp Kevin.Rapp@usdoj.com

Margaret Wu Perlmeter Margaret.perlmeter@usdoj.gov

Reginald E. Jones reginald.jones4@usdoj.gov

Peter Shawn Kozinets Peter.Kozinets@usdoj.gov

Andrew C. Stone, andrew.stone@usdoj.gov

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