United States Second Circuit

In an action arising from an investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, dismissal of an indictment charging defendant with making false statements to a grand jury is reversed where, 1) 18 U.S.C. section 3144, allows the arrest and detention of grand jury witnesses, 2) the material witness warrant was valid, and 3) the court erred in suppressing evidence as the fruit of Fourth Amendment violations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/07/2003
• Published 11/07/2003

Judges

• Before:  JACOBS and STRAUB, Circuit Judges, and CARMAN, Chief Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James B. Comey, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York (Robin L. Baker, Karl Metzner, Celeste L. Koeleveld, and Christine H. Chung, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Boyle, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee., Lawrence Mark Stern, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee (Jesse Berman, Of Counsel, on brief)., Diana D. Parker, New York, New York (Victor J. Rocco, President, New York Council of Defense Lawyers;  Daniel J. Horwitz and Lorraine R. Doran, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, on the brief), for the New York Council of Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellee., Arthur N. Eisenberg, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York (Laura W. Guthrie, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation;  Jethro M. Eisenstein, Profeta & Eisenstein;  Steven R. Shapiro, Lucas Guttentag, and Robin L. Goldfaden, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, on the brief), for the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellee.