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Two federal judges in New York have differed sharply on whether the government may jail material witnesses while they wait to testify in grand jury investigations.
In 1984, Congress reaffirmed the right to jail material witnesses, but also noted that their testimony should be secured by deposition, rather than imprisonment, "whenever possible".
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At that jail, homework materials are delivered to the cells, and students then have to telephone teachers during prearranged hours.
People brought in and jailed as material witnesses, those thought to have information about terrorist plots, have argued that they should not be held to give testimony in grand jury investigations.
Now Evelyn is in jail as a material wintess & as far as we are concerned, she can stay there.
Intervention costs (including time spent by jail staff, transportation, material, facility, and other costs) were reported by CHJ and adjusted to 2009 $ (see Table 2).> -wrap-foot> aOther costs include telephone, Internet, printing and photocopying Net expected costs were calculated by subtracting predicted medical costs averted per month from monthly intervention costs.
Mr. Cohen said the F.B.I. had threatened to have his client jailed as a material witness if he did not submit to questioning.
She said that for reasons unknown to her and her husband, he was not permitted to use the jail's library materials and his newspapers arrived two weeks late.
An Oregon lawyer jailed as a material witness in the Madrid train bombings was freed this month after the F.B.I. said it had mistakenly matched his prints with others found near the scene of the attacks.
The right to jail these so-called material witnesses has deep roots in America.
Two days later, the prosecutor submitted a motion to jail Mitchell as a material witness.
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