United States Fourth Circuit

The district court's granting to defendant access to certain witnesses for deposition purposes is affirmed where the witnesses could provide material, favorable testimony on defendant's behalf and the government substitutions for the witnesses' deposition testimony are inadequate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2004
• Published 09/13/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and WILLIAMS and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul D. Clement, Deputy Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Frank Willard Dunham, Jr., Federal Public Defender, Alexandria, Virginia;  Edward Brian MacMahon, Jr., Middleburg, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Christopher A. Wray, Assistant Attorney General, Patrick F. Philbin, Associate Deputy Attorney General, Jonathan L. Marcus, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;  Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Robert A. Spencer, Assistant United States Attorney, Kenneth M. Karas, Assistant United States Attorney, David J. Novak, Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Gerald T. Zerkin, Jr., Senior Assistant Federal Public Defender, Kenneth P. Troccoli, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Anne M. Chapman, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Alexandria, Virginia;  Alan H. Yamamoto, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.  Kathleen Clark, Joseph Onek, Center for National Security Studies, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.