Free Motion to Continue Trial - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

1 JON M. SANDS Federal Public Defender 2 850 W. Adams, Ste 201 Phoenix, Arizona 85007 3 Telephone: 602-382-2700 4 ROBERT J. McWHIRTER State Bar # 012283 5 Asst. Federal Public Defender Attorney for Defendant 6 [email protected] 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 vs. Francis Luna-Lara, Defendant. Defendant, Francis Luna-Lara, through undersigned counsel, asks this United States of America, Plaintiff, No. CR-03-1097-PHX-ROS MOTION TO CONTINUE TRIAL (1st Request) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

16 Court to continue the trial set for March 7, 2006, for a period of 30 days. The reason 17 for this request is that defense counsel needs additional time for pre-trial 18 investigation. Defense counsel has contacted the Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lisa Settle, 19 20 assigned to this case, who has no objection to this motion. Excludable delay under 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(1)(F) and (8)(A) will occur 21 22 as a result of this motion or from an order based thereon. Respectfully submitted: February 7, 2006. 23 24 25 26 27 28 s/Robert J. McWhirter ROBERT J. McWHIRTER Assistant Federal Public Defender JON M. SANDS Federal Public Defender

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1 Copy of the foregoing transmitted by CM/ECF for filing this 7th day 2 of January, 2006, to: 3 CLERK'S OFFICE United States District Court 4 Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse 401 W. Washington 5 Phoenix, Arizona 85003 6 Lisa Settle Assistant U.S. Attorney 7 United States Attorney's Office Two Renaissance Square 8 40 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1200 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408 9 Copy mailed to: 10 11 Francis Luna-Lara Defendant 12 s/Robert J. McWhirter 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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