DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Plaintiff, 
v. 
JEVON STRIDIRON, 
Defendant. 
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Criminal No. 2014-13 
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ATTORNEYS: 
 
Ronald Sharpe, United States Attorney 
Everard Potter, AUSA 
United States Attorney’s Office 
St. Thomas, VI 
 
For the plaintiff United States of America, 
 
Omodare Jupiter, Federal Public Defender 
Gabriel Villegas, AFPD 
Office of the Federal Public Defender 
St. Thomas, VI 
 
For defendant Jevon Stridiron. 
 
 
ORDER 
GÓMEZ, J. 
Since this case was indicted, the parties have agreed that 
pretrial diversion is appropriate in this matter.  While the 
Speedy Trial Act requires that a defendant be tried within 
seventy days of indictment, the Court specifically finds that 
extending this period would be in the best interest of justice 
for two reasons.  First, an extension is necessary to allow the 
defendant to complete pretrial diversion.  Second, without an 
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extension of time the Government will not be able to determine 
the defendant’s success in the pretrial diversion program.   
Consistent with these concerns, 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)(citing 
United States v. Dota, 33 F.3d 1179(9th Cir. 1994)("An ends of 
justice continuance may be justified on grounds that one side 
needs more time to prepare for trial...even though a case is not 
complex")); see also United States v. Brooks, 697 F.2d 517, 522 
(3d Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1071 (1983) (no abuse of 
discretion where district court found that  multiple count, 
multiple defendant "case was complex and required additional 
time for adequate preparation."); United States v. Lattany, 982 
F.2d 866, 883 (3d Cir. 1992) ("district court did not abuse its 
discretion [by delaying trial] to give counsel ... opportunity 
to...decid[e] upon and prepar[e] an appropriate defense."). 
 
The premises considered, it is hereby 
 
ORDERED that the trial in this matter, previously scheduled 
for July 7, 2014, is hereby CONTINUED and shall begin promptly 
at 9:00 AM on November 23, 2015; it is further 
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ORDERED that the United States shall file a status report 
on Stridiron’s satisfactory compliance with the diversion 
program on the fourth Friday of each month; and it is further 
 
ORDERED that the time beginning from the date of this order 
through the date of the defendant’s completion of or removal 
from the diversion program shall be excluded in computing the 
time within which a trial must be initiated pursuant to 18 
U.S.C. § 3161. 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Curtis V. Gómez 
 
District Judge 
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