MEMORANDUM & ORDER Defendant Jerome Jones is charged in a five-count superseding indictment for murder and conspiracy to murder while engaged in narcotics trafficking, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§846 and 848(e)(1)(A). In this pretrial motion, Jones moves the court to direct the Government to satisfy its disclosure obligations and for dismissal of the superseding indictment for undue delay. For the following reasons, Jones’s motions are DENIED. I. BACKGROUND1 A. Procedural History Jones and Darin Hamilton were indicted on January 31, 2019 for their role in the 1992 murders of Anthony Lloyd and Robert Arroyo. (See Indictment (Dkt. 1).) Jones is currently serving a custodial sentence for an unrelated cocaine base distribution conviction. (See Government Detention Letter (Dkt. 7) at 2.) Jones and Hamilton were alleged members of Black Rain, a heroine and cocaine trafficking organization that operated in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York. Hamilton was alleged to have murdered Lloyd, and Jones and Hamilton were alleged to have murdered and conspired to murder Arroyo in connection with their narcotics trafficking activity. Trial for Jones and Hamilton was initially set for October 13, 2020. (See February 5, 2020 Minute Entry.) Because of pandemic related disruptions, the trial was adjourned to February 16, 2021 (see July 8, 2020 Text Order), and again to March 29, 2021. (See August 6, 2020 Order (Dkt. 60).) On January 4, 2021, the trial was adjourned sine die in light of questions about Hamilton’s competency to stand trial. (See January 4, 2021 Minute Entry.) It was subsequently determined that Hamilton was not competent to stand trial, and the court granted the Government’s request to dismiss the pending charges against Hamilton. (See June 3, 2022 Order (Dkt. 111).) Only Hamilton was charged with Count One of the indictment for the murder of Lloyd, and so Count One was dismissed along with Hamilton’s dismissal from the case. (See id.; Indictment 1.) Jones’s trial date for murder and conspiracy to murder Arroyo was set for July 2023. (See May 25, 2022 Order (Dkt. 107).) In anticipation of trial, the parties submitted motions in limine and a joint motion for a juror questionnaire. (See Jones Mot in limine (Dkt. 118); Gov. Mot. in limine (Dkt. 119); Mot. for Jury Questionnaire (Dkt. 128).) In its motion in limine, the Government argued that evidence of Black Rain’s drug-related murders of Lloyd, Oscar Flow, and Dorothy Taylor should be admissible as direct evidence of crimes charged, or, in the alternative as permissible evidence of “other crimes, wrongs, or acts” under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b). (Gov. Mot. in limine at 1.) Jones opposed the admission of evidence of the other drug-related murders. (See generally Jones Opp. to Gov. Mot. (Dkt. 121).) On June 8, 2023, a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Jones with the murders of Flow, Taylor, and Arroyo. (See Superseding Indictment (Dkt. 130)
