United States v. Woods

TIMOTHY L. BROOKS, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

*1128This is a criminal case in which the Defendants, Jonathan Woods, Oren Paris, and Randell Shelton, have been charged in a seventeen-count indictment1 with conspiring to bribe Mr. Woods while he was a state senator in the Arkansas General Assembly. See Doc. 74. All three Defendants vehemently deny these charges, and have indicated that they will exercise their right to a speedy and public trial.

However, the last seven months of these proceedings have had very little to do with the substance of the Government's charges against the Defendants.…