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MEMBER DEL. AND FLA. BARS
September 2, 2008
The Honorable Joseph J. Farnan, Jr.
U.S. District Court
844 King Street `
Wilmington, DE 19801
Re: U.S. v. Douglas Runk
Cr.A. No. 07-121-JJF
Dear Judge Farnan:
Please be advised that I find myself, on Saturday
afternoon, like the proverbial “cat on a hot tin roof".
Let me explain.
There is a rape case scheduled to begin in the Superior
Court which is one of the oldest cases on the books. The events
occurred allegedly in 2006. That case has been rescheduled
twice. The last time it was rescheduled because the prosecutor
had, shall I say, some personal issues and the matter has been
specially scheduled, with a judge assigned, and on a mandatory
basis for Wednesday, September 3"°‘. I recognized that the Runk
scheduling posed somewhat of a conflict, but I expected to ask
Judge Slights to allow me to be excused for one hour so that I
could resolve the Runk scheduling which I anticipate will not
take longer than one—half hour.
In any event, last week Judge Sleet rescheduled, sua
sponge, a sentencing (Roussos, you may remember the case) which
was scheduled for last week, and he rescheduled it until
Thursday, September 4m.
I had a scheduling conference with Judge Slights on Friday,
and I was aware of the Roussos rescheduling·because it was fresh
in my mind and neglected to remember that the Runk matter had
been scheduled long ago. I asked Judge Slights to excuse me on
Thursday for one hour so that I could attend the Roussos

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sentencing. Reluctantly, he consented, but with the admonition
that he wanted to “get started first thing on Wednesday".
On Saturday afternoon, in preparing my cases for next week,
I became aware of the fact that not only did I have a conflict on
Thursday, but a conflict on Wednesday.
Ironically, just today, I saw about a five-minute portion
of an old Star Track episode and the story line was that Captain
Kirk, a trimmed down William Shatner, had been duplicated when he
got into that “beam me down" device. It was not a complete
duplication, but all of his base instincts went into one version,
and his good instincts into another. Well, it is obvious I
. cannot compete with Captain Kirk, and I cannot be at two places
_ at one time. I would like to avoid having to choose a State. -
penitentiary over a Federal penitentiary, or vice-versa, and I am
compelled to request a brief rescheduling of the Runk matter.
If the Court is inclined to grant this request, and there
is time available toward the tail end of next week or anytime the
following week, or anytime after October 7m, I would, of course,
make sure this was prioritized. .
Lesley Wolf has no objection to this request.
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