Legal Opinion
United States v. Osama Awadallah
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 7, 2003No. Docket 02-1269PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge STRAUB concurs in the opinion except as to Part II.C.3, and has filed a separate concurrence.
JACOBS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal, which arises from the government’s investigation of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, presents questions about the scope of the federal material witness statute and the government’s powers of arrest and detention thereunder. See 18 U.S.C. § 3144. The district court *45(Scheindlin, J.) ruled that the statute cannot be applied constitutionally to a grand jury witness such as the defendant-appel-lee, Osama Awadallah, and dismissed the perjury indictment…
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