Free Motion to Dismiss All Charges - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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PAUL K. CHARLTON United States Attorney District of Arizona KEITH VERCAUTEREN Assistant U.S. Attorney Arizona State Bar No. 013439 Two Renaissance Square 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 1200 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408 Telephone: (602) 514-7500 [email protected]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA United States of America CR-03-1294-PHX-ROS Plaintiff, v. Jeremy Eugene Staffeldt, et al., Defendants. MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT

The United States of America, by and through its attorney undersigned, hereby requests

16 that this Court dismiss the charges contained in the Indictment against defendants JEREMY 17 EUGENE STAFFELDT (Counts 1 and 2), ORLANDO LEON PASTRANO (Counts 1 and 2), 18 LINCOLN CLARENCE METZGAR (Count 1) and JOHN ANTHONY GONZALES (Count 19 1) without prejudice. The reason for this Motion is that the Court's order granting the 20 defendants' motion to suppress precludes the United States from introducing the evidence 21 obtained from the wiretap and search warrants. Accordingly, a dismissal of these charges 22 without prejudice would be in the interests of justice at this time. 23 Counsel for the defendants, Cameron A. Morgan for defendant STAFFELDT, Antonio 24 D. Bustamante for defendant PASTRANO, Marc J. Victor for defendant METZGAR, and 25 Antonio R. Zuniga for defendant GONZALES were notified of the United States' Motion to 26 Dismiss without prejudice. Counsel for all defendants have no objection to the dismissal, but 27 will file a motion seeking a dismissal with prejudice. 28

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It is not expected that excludable delay under 18 U.S.C. § 3161 will occur as a result of

2 this motion or an order based thereon. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 s/Keith Vercauteren Keith E. Vercauteren 28 Assistant United States Attorney CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on September 20, 2006, I electronically transmitted the attached document to the Clerk's Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrant: Cameron A. Morgan, [email protected] Antonio D. Bustamante, [email protected] Marc J. Victor, [email protected] Antonio R. Zuniga, [email protected] s/ Keith Vercauteren KEITH E. VERCAUTEREN Assistant United States Attorney Respectfully submitted this 20th day of September, 2006. PAUL K. CHARLTON United States Attorney District of Arizona

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