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Home Court filings Hines United States v. David Tyler Hines — S.D. Fla., Miami, No. 1:20-mj-03237-JB Information — United States v. David T. Hines (Dkt. 23, S.D. Fla. No. 1:20-mj-03237, FLSD 574880)

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Information — United States v. David T. Hines (Dkt. 23, S.D. Fla. No. 1:20-mj-03237, FLSD 574880)

Filed October 20, 2020 in Hines; one of 13 filings from this case.

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CourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Filed2020-10-20

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida · No. 1:20-mj-03237-JB · Doc. 23 · 2020-10-20 · Docket on CourtListener

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA 
 
CASE NO. 20-MJ-03237-JB 
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
 
 
vs. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
DAVID TYLER HINES, 
 
 
 
Defendant. 
                                                            / 
 
UNITED STATES RESPONSE TO  
THE STANDING DISCOVERY ORDER 
 
The United States hereby files this response in anticipation of the filing of the Standing 
Discovery Order.  This response also complies with Local Rule 88.10 and Federal Rule of 
Criminal Procedure 16, and is numbered to correspond with Local Rule 88.10. 
 
A. 
 
 
1. 
The government is unaware of any written statement made by the 
defendant to law enforcement other than certain emails sent by the 
defendant to the undersigned.   
 
2. 
The government is unaware of any oral statement made by defendant to 
any person known by the defendant to be law enforcement other than 
biographical statements.  
 
3. 
No defendant testified before the Grand Jury. 
 
4. 
A copy of the defendants’ NCIC is attached.    
 
5. 
Books, papers, documents, photographs, tangible objects, buildings or 
places which the government intends to use as evidence at trial to prove its 
case in chief, or were obtained or belonging to the defendant may be 
inspected at a mutually convenient time at the Office of the United States 
Attorney, 99 Northeast 4th Street, Miami, Florida.  In particular, the 
government is including copies of pertinent materials from the search 
warrants in this response.  Additional material from the search warrant 
(e.g., records from computers and other electronic devices) may be 
reviewed by contacting the undersigned to set up a date and time that is 
convenient to both parties.  Please call the undersigned with 48-hours 
notice if you intend to review the evidence at this date and time. 
 
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2 
The attachments to this discovery response are not necessarily copies of 
all the books, papers, documents, etc., that the government may intend to 
introduce at trial.  
 
6. 
There were no physical or mental examinations or scientific tests or 
experiments made in connection with this case. 
 
B. 
DEMAND FOR RECIPROCAL DISCOVERY: The United States requests the 
disclosure and production of materials enumerated as items 1, 2 and 3 of Section 
B of the Standing Discovery Order.  This request is also made pursuant to Rule 
16(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. 
 
C. 
The government will disclose any information or material which may be 
favorable on the issues of guilt or punishment within the scope of Brady v. 
Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97 (1976). 
 
D. 
The government will disclose any payments, promises of immunity, leniency, 
preferential treatment, or other inducements made to prospective government 
witnesses, within the scope of Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972), or 
Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959). 
 
E. 
The government will disclose any prior convictions of any alleged co-conspirator, 
accomplice or informant who will testify for the government at trial.   
 
F. 
No defendant was identified in a lineup, show-up or photo spread.   
 
G. 
The government has advised its agents and officers involved in this case to 
preserve all rough notes. 
 
H. 
The government will timely advise the defendant of its intent, if any, to introduce 
during its case in chief proof of evidence pursuant to F.R.E. 404(b).  You are 
hereby on notice that all evidence made available to you for inspection, as well as 
all statements disclosed herein or in any future discovery letter, may be offered in 
the trial of this cause, under F.R.E. 404(b) or otherwise (including the 
inextricably-intertwined doctrine).  
 
I. 
The defendant is not an aggrieved person, as defined in Title 18, United States 
Code, Section 2510(11), of any electronic surveillance. 
 
J. 
The government will order transcribed the Grand Jury testimony of all witnesses 
who will testify for the government at the trial of this cause. 
 
K. 
No contraband is involved in this indictment. 
 
L. 
The government does not know of any automobile, vessel, or aircraft allegedly 
used in the commission of this offense that is in the government's possession other 
than the Lamborghini purchased with the funds at issue in the complaint. 
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M. 
The government is not aware of latent fingerprints or palm prints which have been 
identified by a government expert as those of the defendant(s).   
 
N. 
The government has not received a request for disclosure of the subject-matter of 
expert testimony that the government reasonably expects to offer at trial.   The 
government does not intend to offer any expert testimony at trial.   
 
O. 
The government will make every possible effort in good faith to stipulate to all 
facts or points of law the truth and existence of which is not contested and the 
early resolution of which will expedite trial.  These stipulations will be discussed 
at the discovery conference.   
 
P. 
At the discovery conference scheduled in Section A.5, above, the government will 
seek written stipulations to agreed facts in this case, to be signed by the defendant 
and defense counsel. 
 
The government is aware of its continuing duty to disclose such newly discovered 
additional information required by the Standing Discovery Order, Rule 16(c) of the Federal 
Rules of Criminal Procedure, Brady, Giglio, Napue, and the obligation to assure a fair trial. 
 
Please find attached to this response an index with a production log setting forth the 
documents being produced.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   Respectfully submitted, 
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ARIANA FAJARDO ORSHAN  
  
 
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By: s/Michael N. Berger                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MICHAEL N. BERGER 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant United States Attorney 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Court No. A5501557 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
99 Northeast 4th Street, 4th Floor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Miami, Florida 33132-2111 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tel: (305) 961-9445 
 
 
 
 
 
 
E-mail: michael.berger2@usdoj.gov  
 
 
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 
 
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the attached was filed using 
CM/ECF on October 20, 2020 and a copy of the discovery will be mailed to counsel of record:   
 
Counsel for David Tyler Hines 
Elizabeth Blair 
Assistant Federal Public Defender 
150 West Flagler Street 
Miami, FL 33130 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
s/Michael N. Berger                        
                                 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant United States Attorney 
 
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Index of Documents 
 
Folder 
Documents 
Bank Analyses 
Spreadsheet with inflow and outflow of records 
Grand Jury Productions 
Responses from Bank of America, Match, Prestige Imports 
Hines Cell Phone 
Key documents from cell phone of Hines 
NCIC 
NCIC report of Hines 
SBA Documents 
SBA Loan  
Warrants 
Search and Seizure Warrants and Complaint 
 
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