Legal Opinion
Xiao v. Barr
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 30, 1992No. Nos. 92-15389, 92-16272PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POOLE, Circuit Judge:
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Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A), ap-pellee Wang Zong Xiao (“Wang”) was paroled into this country from the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) to testify at the trial of Leung Tak Lun, Chico Wong, and Andrew Wong. Wang had allegedly participated in a conspiracy to import heroin from Shanghai to San Francisco inside condoms sewn into the body cavities of dead goldfish. The Leung trial ended disastrously for the government, however, when the court declared a mistrial in response to Wang’s revelations that Chinese authorities had tortured and coerced him into confessing…
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