Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roberto CHAVEZ-GONZALEZ, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-03-26
Citations: 321 F. App'x 914
Docket Number: No. 08-12133
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roberto CHAVEZ-GONZALEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEW, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 321
Pages: 914–915

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roberto CHAVEZ-GONZALEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 08-12133.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
March 26, 2009.
Michael Herskowitz, Atlanta, GA, John Andrew Horn, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
R. Gary Spencer, Atlanta, GA, for De-fendanf-Appellant.
Before BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEW, District Judge.
Honorable Susan C. Bucklew, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Roberto Chavez-Gonzalez appeals the district court's denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment against him for violation of the Speedy Trial Act. We review the denial of a motion to dismiss under the Speedy Trial Act de novo and the district court's factual determinations on excluda-ble time for clear error. United States v. Harris, 376 F.3d 1282, 1286 (11th Cir.2004). The Speedy Trial Act requires a defendant be brought to trial within 70 days of the filing of his indictment, or his first appearance before a judicial officer, whichever occurs later. 18 U.S.C. § 3161(c)(1). The Act also sets forth certain periods of delay that are excludable from the calculation of the 70-day limit. See 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h).
For Appellant, the relevant excludable time includes (1) "delay resulting from any pretrial motion, from the filing of the motion through the conclusion of the hearing on, or other prompt disposition of, such motion," and (2) "[a] reasonable period of delay when the defendant is joined for trial with a codefendant as to whom the time for trial has not run and no motion for severance has been granted." 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(1)(F), (h)(7).
Appellant's codefendant filed two motions that were pending before the district court. The delay resulting from these two motions is excludable from Appellant's speedy trial clock. After reviewing the record and the parties' briefs and having the benefit of oral argument, we conclude the period of delay resulting from the motions was reasonable. For these reasons, there was no violation of the Speedy Trial Act.
AFFIRMED.