Free Motion for Handwriting Exemplars - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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PAUL K. CHARLTON United States Attorney District of Arizona MICHELLE HAMILTON-BURNS Assistant U.S. Attorney Arizona State Bar No. 010269 Two Renaissance Square 40 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1200 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408 [email protected] Telephone: (602) 514-7500

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA United States of America, CR-03-1269-PHX-NVW Plaintiff, v. Sharen Stewart, a.k.a. Sherry Stewart, d.b.a. Prime Resources Consulting, LLC, a.k.a. PRC, Paul K. Bryan, a.k.a. Lyle Edward Goeringer, d.b.a. Bryan Group International, Defendants. MOTION FOR HANDWRITING EXEMPLARS

The United States Government, by and through its attorney, the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, herein respectfully request the Court order the defendants, Sharen Stewart and Paul Bryan, to submit to the taking of handwriting exemplars. At trial the government intends to introduce documents found during a search of defendant Stewart's home. The documents purportedly contain the handwriting of the

defendants. The government needs to obtain handwriting samples to determine whether or not the defendants authored portions of the documents. The defendants do not have a Fifth Amendment privilege to protect them from being required to furnish handwriting exemplars. United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1 (1973); Gilbert v. California, 388 U.S. 263, 265-67 (1967).

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"Securing handwriting exemplars or handprinting from a defendant does not violate his right

2 against self-incrimination." United States v. Roth, 466 F.2d 1111, 1114 (9th Cir. 1972) 3 Based upon the foregoing, the United States requests the Court to issue an order directing

4 defendants Sharen Stewart and Paul Bryan to provide handwriting exemplars to federal law 5 enforcement agents designated by the government. 6 It is expected that excludable delay pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3161(h)(1)(F) will occur as a

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Respectfully submitted this 24th day of August, 2005. PAUL K. CHARLTON United States Attorney District of Arizona s/ Michelle Hamilton-Burns MICHELLE HAMILTON-BURNS Assistant U.S. Attorney

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on this 24th day of August, 2005, I electronically transmitted the

3 attached document to the Clerk's Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal 4 of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM / ECF registrants: 5 [email protected] 6 Patricia Gitre Counsel for Defendant Stewart 7 8 Tonya J. McMath [email protected] Counsel for Defendant Bryan 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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