Free Motion to Dismiss Counts (Less Than All) - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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PAUL K. CHARLTON United States Attorney District of Arizona TIMOTHY T. DUAX KEITH E. VERCAUTEREN Assistant U.S. Attorneys Arizona State Bar No. 012694 & 013439 Two Renaissance Square 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 1200 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408 Telephone: (602) 514-7500 [email protected] [email protected]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA United States of America CR-03-1167-PHX-DGC Plaintiff, v. Robert J. Johnston, Jr., et al., Defendants. AMENDED MOTION TO DISMISS COUNTS AND ORDER

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

16 that this Court dismiss the following charges contained in the Second Superseding Indictment 17 with prejudice: Counts 5, and 12-15 against defendant Craig T. Kelly; Counts 5, 10 and 11 18 against defendant Henry E. Watkins; and Count 7 against defendant Robert T. Rienstra. The 19 United States and defendants Craig T. Kelly, Henry E. Watkins, and Robert T. Rienstra further 20 stipulate that the United States has no further obligation to provide any additional discovery in 21 this case. 22 Defense counsel, Joseph E. Abodeely for defendant Craig T. Kelly, Carmen L. Fischer

23 for defendant Henry E. Watkins, and Philip A. Seplow for defendant Robert T. Rienstra have 24 been contacted and they have no objection to the Motion to Dismiss with prejudice, and they 25 concur with the stipulation for no further discovery. 26 The United States believes a dismissal of the aforementioned charges with prejudice

27 would be in the interests of justice at this time. 28

Case 2:03-cr-01167-DGC

Document 1279

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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 I hereby certify that on February 24, 2006, 20 I electronically transmitted the attached document to the Clerk's Office using the 21 CM/ECF system for filing and transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing 22 to the following CM/ECF registrants: 23 24 25 26 27 s/ Keith Vercauteren 28 KEITH E. VERCAUTEREN Joseph E. Abodeely, [email protected], [email protected] Carmen L. Fischer, [email protected], [email protected] Philip A. Seplow, [email protected], [email protected] s/ Keith Vercauteren KEITH E. VERCAUTEREN Assistant United States Attorney Respectfully submitted this 24th day of February, 2006. PAUL K. CHARLTON United States Attorney District of Arizona

Case 2:03-cr-01167-DGC

Document 1279

Filed 02/24/2006

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