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Filing 77

THIRD AMENDMENT TO GENERAL ORDER 20-01 RE: COURT OPERATIONS UNDER THE EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES CREATED BY COVID-19 AND RELATED CORONA VIRUS. Signed by Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. on 05/26/2020. (rvb) (ADI)

FILED IN CLERK’S OFFICE
U.SD.C. -Atlanta

MAY

U N ITEI) STATES I)ISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN l)ISTRICT OF CEORCIA

IN RE: COURT OIE RATIONS UNDER
THE EXICENT CIRCt]MSTANCES
CREATEL) BY COVII)-19 ANt) RELATED
CORONA VIRUS

CENtRAL ORI)tR 20-01
Third Amendment

ORDER

(ieneral Otder 2t)—0 I dated March I 6. 2020. amended by Order dated Match 30.
-

2020. and Ilirthet- amended by Order dated April 3t). 2t)2t). addresses court

the United States [)istrict Court For the Northern

[)istrict

opetatiofls

br

of Georgia under the exigent

circumstances created by the spread ot COVID- 19. The adverse conditions giving tise to
General Order 20—01 not yet having sufliciently resolved for the Court to return to normal
operati oils,
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Genetal Order 20-01, as twice amended, is
further amended to extend the time periods specified therein through and including the date
of July 3, 2020.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that while there will he
trials

in

no

civil

or

criminal jury

any division of the Northern [)istrict of Georgia until after said date. grand jury

proceedings may he held beginning .lune 1, 2t)20, and

SUH1JI1OflS

may he issued prior to itily

3, 2t)20 to prospective jurors kr proceedings scheduled to begin after July 3, 2020.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the time period

of

any continuance entered as

a result ul this Order (hether that continuance causes a pre—indictment delay or a
pre—trial delay) shall be exeltided tinder tile Speedy Trial Act. I 8 t .S.C.

§

3 I 6 I ( h )( 7 )( /\ ). as the

Court

lincis that the ends olj iist ice served by tak lug that

action

otitweiih the interests of the parties and the ptibl ic in a speedy trial. Absent Fiurthet’
Order ot the Court or any individual judge. the period ol exclusion shall be from
March 23, 2020, throtih and includimz .1 uly 3. 2020. l’he Court may extend the
period ol’ excitision as circumstances may warrant. ‘liiis Order and period ol
excitision are incorporated by reference as a specillc flnding under 18 U.S.C.

§

3 161 (h)(7)(A) in the tecotd ot each pending case where the Speedy Trial Act
applies. See Zedner v. Un/led Stales. 547 U.S. 489, 5t)6-07 (2006). The period of

exclusion in the Court’s prior orders on this subject, General Order 20—01 and its
two subsequent amendments, are likewise incorporated by reference as a specific
finding under 1 8 U.S.C.

§

3 16 1 (h)(7)(A) in the record of each pending case where

the Speedy Trial Act applies.
ORDERED this

day of May 2020.

THOMAS W. THRASH, JR.
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE