United States v. Nai Fook Li

How courts have described this case

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• expressing “concern[ ] that these five material witnesses are being treated as if they were charged with an offense” and ordering them “transferred to a mini- mum security, residential facility”
• court influenced by fact Chinese illegal immigrants would be subject to immediate expulsion proceedings upon release from federal government's custody
• witness’ statements or behavior lead to conclusion it is reasonably unlikely he will appear
• material witness may be detained under § 3142 if government establishes risk of flight by preponderance of the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).