United States v. Reed

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge

Before the court is the Government’s First Motion for Continuance, which requests that the court (1) move the trial presently set for June 13, 2017, to a date in October 2017, and (2) exclude the intervening days from the 70-day period in which Defendant James Marvin Reed must receive a trial, pursuant to the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3161-3174. As grounds for these requests, the Government submits that four of its essential witnesses are unavailable on either the present trial date—June 13, 2017—or the alternative…