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DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. JOAN MORALES NOLASCO, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3:19-cr-0065 ) ) ) ) ) ORDER BEFORE THE COURT is the Report and Recommendation of the magistrate judge recommending that the Court accept Joan Morales Nolasco’s (“Nolasco”) plea of guilty (ECF No. 262) to Counts One and Three of the Indictment. Count One charges a violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(a). Count Three charges a violation of 18 U.S.C. 924(a)(1)(A)(i). For the reasons stated below, the Court will adopt the Report and Recommendation. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, “[w]ithin fourteen days after being served with a copy [of the Report and Recommendation], any party may serve and file written objections to such proposed findings and recommendations as provided by rules of court. A judge of the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). Here, neither party filed an objection within fourteen days of service of the Report and Recommendation. Therefore, “the scope of [the Court’s] review is far more limited and is conducted under the far more deferential standard of ‘plain error’.” Tice v. Wilson, 425 F. Supp. 2d 676, 680 (W.D. Pa. 2006) aff’d, 276 Fed. App’x 125 (3d Cir. 2008); see Henderson v. Carlson, 812 F.2d 874, 878 (3d Cir. 1987) (“While . . . [28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)] may not require, in the absence of objections, the district court to review the magistrate’s report before accepting it, we believe that the better practice is for the district judge to afford some level of review to dispositive legal issues raised by the report.”). After reviewing the record and the Report and Recommendation, the Court does not find plain error in any of the magistrate judge’s factual and legal findings. Therefore, Case: 3:19-cr-00065-RAM-RM Document #: 269 Filed: 04/27/22 Page 1 of 2 United States v. Nolasco Case No. 3:19-cr-0065 Order pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Court finds that Nolasco entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily, and that there was a factual basis for the plea. The Court, therefore, will adopt the Report and Recommendation and find Nolasco guilty as to Counts One and Three of the Indictment. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (ECF No. 262) is ACCEPTED; it is further ORDERED that Defendant Joan Morales Nolasco’s plea of guilty as to Counts One and Three of the Indictment is ACCEPTED, and that Nolasco is adjudged GUILTY on those counts; it is further ORDERED that, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(c)(1)(A), the U.S. Probation Office shall conduct a presentence investigation for the preparation of a presentence report; it is further ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the preliminary presentence report to the parties no later than June 30, 2022; it is further ORDERED that the parties shall submit any objections or corrections to the preliminary presentence report to the U.S. Probation Office no later than July 14, 2022; it is further ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the final presentence report to the parties and the Court no later than July 28, 2022; it is further ORDERED that the parties shall file their sentencing memoranda no later August 11, 2022; it is further ORDERED that a sentencing hearing is SCHEDULED to commence promptly at 10:00 A.M. on August 24, 2022, in St. Thomas Courtroom 1 before Chief Judge Robert A. Molloy. Date: April 27, 2022 /s/_Robert A. Molloy _________ ROBERT A. MOLLOY Chief Judge Case: 3:19-cr-00065-RAM-RM Document #: 269 Filed: 04/27/22 Page 2 of 2