Legal Opinion
United States v. Vasquez-Escobar
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided October 30, 1998No. 98-62-CR-FTM-17DPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ALDRICH, District Judge.
This ease presents the limited question of whether the federal government may detain an alien for five months under the guise of a civil immigration statute that provides for the detention of aliens who have illegally reentered the United States after a prior order of deportation, while it awaits evidence with which to indict him on an identical criminal charge. The Court holds that it cannot.
I. Facts
On or about October 18,1996, Santos Sixto Vasquez-Escobar (“Vasquez-Escobar”), a citizen of El Salvador, was arrested on charges unknown to the Court…
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