SECOND OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In a companion Opinion issued today, this Court held that the federal material witness statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3144 ("section 3144"), does not authorize the detention of material witnesses for a grand jury investigation. See United States v. Awadallah ("Awadallah III"),
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