IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Plaintiff, 
v. 
MARVELLOUS EGHAGHE, 
Defendant. 
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Case No. 3:20-cr-0043 
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ORDER 
 
BEFORE THE COURT is the United States’ (the “Government”) Unopposed Motion to 
Continue Trial, currently scheduled for February 14, 2021. (ECF No. 40.) For the reasons 
stated herein, the Court will grant the motion to continue. The time to try this case is 
extended up to and including April 18, 2022.  
 
On December 7, 2021, the Government filed a motion to continue trial, ECF No. 40. In 
the motion, counsel for the Government asserts that he will be away, serving on military 
duty, from January 23, 2022 through February 25, 2022. (ECF No. 40 at 1.) Counsel further 
represents that defense counsel does not object to the motion. 
While the Speedy Trial Act requires that defendants be tried within seventy days of 
indictment, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has recognized that 
“whether or not a case is ‘unusual’ or ‘complex,’ an ‘ends of justice’ continuance may in 
appropriate circumstances be granted.” United States v. Fields, 39 F.3d 439, 444 (3d Cir. 
1994). Here, an extension is necessary to allow counsel to serve the country through his 
appointed military service. As such, the Court specifically finds that the ends of justice served 
by granting a continuance outweigh the interest of the public and Eghaghe in a speedy trial.  
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Further, in the Thirty-Third Order Concerning Operations of the District Court of the 
Virgin Islands During the COVID-19 Outbreak, the Court ordered that all civil and criminal 
jury trials scheduled in February of 2022 be continued pending further Order of the Court.  
https://www.vid.uscourts.gov/sites/vid/files/general-ordes/Order%20-%20Thirty-
Third%20Operational%20Order%20Concerning%20COVID-19%20Outbreak.pdf. In the 
order, the Court specifically found “that the ends of justice served by taking such action 
materially outweigh the best interests of the public and any defendant in a speedy trial and 
speedy indictment in view of the serious public health impact of COVID-19 . . . .” Id. 
The premises considered, it is hereby 
ORDERED that the United States’ Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial, ECF No. 40, is 
GRANTED; and it is further 
ORDERED that the jury selection and trial in this matter SHALL commence promptly 
at 9:00 a.m. on April 18, 2022, in St. Thomas Courtroom 1. 
 
Dated: February 7, 2022 
 
/s/ Robert A. Molloy  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
ROBERT A. MOLLOY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Judge 
 
 
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