Elkan Abramowitz, Leland B. Altschuler, David Bancroft, et al.
Amici Curiae
Aaron R. Marcu, Counsel of Record Elkan Abramowitz, Leland B. Altschuler, and David Bancroft are joined in this brief by 28 other former Federal prosecutors. Aaron R. Marcu is a partner with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he heads the firm’s Financial Institutions Litigations Group. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 28, 2011. The Federal material-witness statute, 18 U.S. Code Section 3144, gives prosecutors the power to secure a witness’s presence in order to obtain the witness’s testimony in a criminal proceeding. The…
