Wang Zong Xiao v. Reno

ORDER SETTING CONDITIONS OF RELEASE

In an order filed May 3, 1996, in Wang v. Reno, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled: “The appellee’s motion for release is granted pending completion of proceedings in the Court of Appeals. Appellant [sic] shall be released upon conditions to be established by the district court.”

“Appellee,” known to this Court as plaintiff Wang Zong Xiao (‘Wang”), comes now before the Court for the purpose of having the Court comply with the Ninth Circuit’s order by establishing the conditions under which he is to be released. The Court has had the benefit of a United States Pretrial Services Agency (“Pretrial Services”) Memorandum containing its research of alternatives to the detention of Wang and recommending certain conditions. In addition, the parties have provided the Court with comments, both oral and written, addressing the nature and types of conditions to be established.

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This case has had a long and shameful history, of which the parties are well aware and which the Court will not here repeat. The essential facts of the case are described at length in the Court’s opinion in Xiao v. Reno, 837 F.Supp. 1506…