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`Case 2:18-cr-00422-DJH Document 1380 Filed 11/05/21 Page 1 of 2
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
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`United States of America,
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`Plaintiff,
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`Michael Lacey, et al.,
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`Defendants.
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`No. CR-18-00422-001-PHX-DJH
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`ORDER
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`Pending before the Court is the Defendants’ Joint Motion Requesting Status
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`Conference (“Joint Motion”) (Doc. 1378).1
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`Hearing Dates
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`Defendants ask the Court to set hearing dates for their pending motions, although
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`not fully briefed. The Court, by prior separate minute entry, set December 3, 2021, for oral
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`argument on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 1355). (Doc. 1376). To the extent that
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`the Court believes any other pending motion requires oral argument, the Court will set a
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`tentative hearing date. Accordingly, counsel are to meet and confer on which date/times
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`they are available and file a notice of same with the Court by November 12, 2021:2
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`• December 13, 2021 [1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.]
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`• December 20, 2021 [1:30 – 4:00 p.m.]
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`1 By separate Order, the Court construed a portion of this Joint Motion to be a Motion for
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`(Doc. 1379). This Order addresses the remaining requests in the Joint Motion.
`2 Note that these are the only available dates on the Court’s calendar. Further, the Court
`will permit out-of-state counsel to appear via ZOOM and only one counsel per party will
`be permitted to argue any singular motion.
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`Case 2:18-cr-00422-DJH Document 1380 Filed 11/05/21 Page 2 of 2
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`• December 21 or 22, 2021 [1:30 – 4:00 p.m.]
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`2.
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`Jury Questionnaires
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`The Defendants also ask the Court to address “the scheduling out of mailing out the
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`jury questionnaires.” The date of mailing has been set by the U.S. District Court Jury
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`Administrator as December 15, 2021, at the latest. The Court is aware of the parties’ fully-
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`briefed and requested changes to the jury screening questionnaire and the Court will submit
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`its intended changes to the parties upon its revision. Prior Order of the Court (Doc. 1336)
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`set January 31, 2022, as the status conference to review completed questionnaires for
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`hardship. The Court will not change that setting.
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`Clarification of Trial Schedule
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`Regarding the Trial Schedule, by separate Order (1374), the Court “inform[ed] the
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`parties that it intends to hold them to the . . . trial dates previously set by Judge Brnovich[.]”
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`That Order clearly means what it says, that any trial and non-trial dates agreed to by Judge
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`Brnovich prior to this Court’s assignment, are firm (to include Gary Lincenberg’s and Paul
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`Cambria’s travel dates).
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`In accordance with the above,
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`IT IS ORDERED that Defendants’ Joint Motion Requesting Status Conference
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`(Doc. 1378) is denied.
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`IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties are to meet and confer regarding
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`their availability for possible hearing times on their pending motions, and notify the Court
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`as to their availability by November 12, 2021.
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`Dated this 5th day of November, 2021.
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`Honorable Diane J. Humetewa
`United States District Judge
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