United States Ninth Circuit

In a prosecution for conspiring to provide and providing material support to terrorists, contributing goods and services to a specially designated global terrorist, and making a material false statement, a pretrial detention order denying bail is affirmed where there was clear and convincing evidence that defendant poses a grave danger to the Philippines, if not to other communities in Southeast Asia, and that "no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure...the safety of...the community."

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/22/2008
• Decided 02/19/2008
• Published 02/19/2008

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, STEPHEN REINHARDT, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry J. Portman, Esq., Nicholas P. Humy, Esq., Cynthia C. Lie, Esq., and Mara K. Goldman, Esq. Federal Public Defender, San Jose, CA, for Defendant-Appellant., Scott N. Schools, Esq., John T. Gibbs, Esq., Joanna Baltes, Esq., and Jonathan D. Schmidt, Esq. United States Department of Justice, Washington D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee.