Trial Order as to Roody Metelus: In Limine Motions due — United States v. Metelus (Dkt. 12, S.D. Fla.)

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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida · No. 0:26-cr-60019-RKA · Doc. 12 · 2026-02-10 · Docket on CourtListener

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA 
 
CASE NO. 26-cr-60019-ALTMAN 
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
 
v. 
 
ROODY METELUS, 
 
Defendant. 
_________________________________/ 
 
TRIAL ORDER 
 
The Court hereby sets this case for a Criminal Jury Trial at 400 N. Miami Avenue, 
Courtroom 12-4, Miami, Florida 33128, during the two-week period beginning March 9, 2026. A 
Calendar Call will be held at 1:30 p.m., on March 3, 2026, at the same location. The deadline for 
the scheduling of guilty pleas is March 3, 2026. See, e.g., United States v. Gamboa, 166 F.3d 1327, 1331 
(11th Cir. 1999) (citing United States v. Ellis, 547 F.2d 863, 868 (5th Cir. 1977)). The Defendant’s 
appearance is required at all hearings.  
 
It is further ORDERED that:  
1. 
All affirmative expert disclosures required by Local Criminal Rules 88.10(o)(3)(B)(i) 
(governing affirmative expert disclosures under Federal Criminal Rule 16(a)(1)(G)) and 
88.10(o)(3)(B)(iii) (governing affirmative expert disclosures under Federal Criminal 
Rule 16(b)(1)(C)) must be made by February 16, 2026. 
2. 
All pre-trial motions and motions in limine must be filed by February 17, 2026. Each 
party is limited to one motion in limine. If there are multiple defendants, the defendants 
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shall file one combined motion. Motions in limine may not, without leave of Court, 
exceed the page limits allowed by the Local Rules. 
3. 
All requests for writs ad testificandum must be filed no later than 14 business days before 
the first day of the scheduled trial period. 
4. 
All rebuttal expert disclosures required by Local Criminal Rules 88.10(o)(3)(B)(ii) and 
88.10(o)(3)(B)(iv) must be made by March 2, 2026. 
5. 
All responses to the Standing Discovery Order or Local Rule 88.10 shall be provided 
in a timely fashion in accordance with the dates scheduled by the Magistrate Judge. 
Noncompliance with the Standing Discovery Order, the Local Rules, or the Federal 
Rules of Criminal Procedure may result in sanctions. Any notice submitted under 
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) shall include a specific factual basis for the evidence 
the Government wants to introduce. 
6. 
To the extent required by Local Rule 88.9, all motions shall be accompanied by a 
written statement certifying that counsel for the moving party has conferred with 
opposing counsel in a good faith effort to resolve by agreement the subject matter of 
the motion. Email communications shall not be sufficient to constitute conferral. 
Counsel must actually speak to one another, either in person or over the phone, in a 
good faith effort to resolve their disputes.  
7. 
Counsel shall be prepared to conduct limited voir dire after the Court’s questioning of 
the panel. At any time before the Calendar Call, each party may file no more than 
five proposed voir dire questions for the Court to ask of the venire.  
8. 
Before the Calendar Call, the parties shall submit, in Word format, via e-mail to 
altman@flsd.uscourts.gov, a single set of proposed jury instructions, including 
substantive charges and defenses, and a verdict form. For instructions on filing 
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proposed documents, please see http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov. Although they need 
not agree on each proposed instruction, the parties shall submit their proposed jury 
instructions and verdict form jointly. Where the parties do not agree on a proposed 
instruction, that instruction shall be set forth in bold type. Instructions 
proposed only by the Government shall be underlined. Instructions proposed 
solely by the defense shall be italicized. Every instruction must be supported by 
citations to authority. Any proposed instruction that modifies an instruction from the 
Eleventh Circuit’s Pattern Jury Instructions must both note the modification and 
delineate the modification in redline (or track changes). 
9. 
Before the Calendar Call, counsel shall file lists of proposed witnesses and exhibits. 
All exhibits must be pre-labeled in accordance with the proposed exhibit list. 
Government exhibits shall be designated numerically; defense exhibits will proceed 
alphabetically. 
10. 
If any party seeks to introduce transcript(s) at the trial, that party shall exchange those 
transcripts with all counsel before the Calendar Call. If a transcript cannot be agreed 
upon, each party shall be prepared to produce its own version for the trier of fact.  
11. 
The Government must turn over to defense counsel all Jencks Act1 material by the 
day of the Calendar Call. The material shall include a face sheet for defense counsel 
to sign and date, acknowledging receipt.  
12. 
Upon receipt of this Order, counsel for each defendant shall certify with the Court’s 
courtroom deputy whether that Defendant requires the aid of an interpreter. In 
addition, all parties must notify the Court, at least 24 hours before any hearings or trial, 
 
118 U.S.C. § 3500.
 
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if an interpreter is required. 
13. 
At least seven days before the scheduled trial date, defense counsel must make 
arrangements with the Bureau of Prisons for appropriate clothing for their in-custody 
clients. 
14. 
The parties shall comply with Local Rule 88.5, which requires the filing of speedy trial 
reports every 20 days hereafter until the time of trial or plea.   
15. 
Local Rule 7.1(a)(2) requires that certain motions be accompanied by proposed orders, 
which must be filed as attachments to those motions. FURTHERMORE, 
PURSUANT 
TO 
CM/ECF 
ADMINISTRATIVE 
PROCEDURES, 
PROPOSED ORDERS SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE COURT BY E-
MAIL IN WORD FORMAT TO altman@flsd.uscourts.gov. 
DONE AND ORDERED in the Southern District of Florida on February 9, 2026. 
 
 
 
 
  _________________________________ 
  ROY K. ALTMAN 
  UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 
cc:  
counsel of record 
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