United States v. Marquez

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER WITH REGARD TO MOTION FOR AN ORDER OF EXCLUDABLE DELAY (Document No. 87)

NEIMAN, United States Magistrate Judge.

Presently before the court is the Government’s motion for an order of excluda-ble delay under a portion of the Speedy Trial Act (“the Act”), 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h), from December 17, 2008, the date of the final status conference, until January 12, 2009, the scheduled date of the pretrial conference. For the reasons that follow, the Government’s motion will be allowed.

I. Background

In the interest of brevity, the court proceeds directly to the procedural background…