Opinion
20-CR-295 (VEC)
06-07-2021
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. MICHAEL DEL VILLAR and ENRIQUE ROSADO, Defendants.
ORDER
VALERIE CAPRONI, United States District Judge:
The Southern District of New York has reconfigured courtrooms and other spaces in its courthouses to allow civil jury trials to proceed as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the centralized calendaring system currently in place, the Clerk's Office schedules up to three jury trials to begin on each day of jury selection: a primary case and up to two back-up cases that may proceed in its place if the primary case does not go forward.
On May 3, 2021, the Court informed the parties that it would request a jury so trial could begin in July 2021. See Dkt. 79. The Clerk's Office has now notified the Court that this case has been placed on the jury trial list for July 14, 2021. The case must be trial-ready for that date. The case is second on the list for jury trials for that day. This means that the case will not proceed on July 14, 2021, if the other trial scheduled for that date goes forward. If the case cannot proceed on the scheduled date, the Court will seek another jury trial date for as soon as possible thereafter. As soon as the Court confirms that the matter will proceed on July 14, 2021, it will inform the parties.
As of the date of this Order, the parties' pretrial filings have been submitted in full. The parties must appear for a Final Pretrial Conference on July 6, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., in Courtroom 443, Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007.
SO ORDERED.