Talk:Material witness

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[edit] Material witness statute

Perhaps this page should more properly be called "Material Witness Statute." If so, it could have a comprehensive history of the statute, including an account of the controversial post-9/11 uses of the statute. Then, "material witness" could just be a subheading.

Just updating stuff. I'll keep on adding as I have more time. Aaa36 14:17, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Does anyone know, in what manner is a material witness held? Is it the same 6x8 cell that a bona-fide suspect gets, or something more like a hotel room that you can never leave? 68.147.242.17 04:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

• Practices are very inconsistent, and seem to depend on the location of detention and the identify of the detainee. The report by Human Rights Watch gives the impression that many are held in solitary confinement. I think that prisons justify this as the only reasonable way of holding these witnesses separately from the general prison population, which is a competing concern. In any case, no source that I have read has reported detention in anything but a prison cell of some form. Aaa36 23:20, 12 November 2006 (UTC)