Immigration
Dec. 15, 2009
Rulings Don't End Immigrants' Detention
Kenyon immigrant Sylvester Owino is still behind bars five years after he was locked up and four months after an appeals court urged a lower court to "expedite the hearing" to determine whether he should be released.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was so troubled in August by a Kenyan immigrant's case that it appointed an attorney and urged a lower court to "expedite the hearing" to determine whether the man should be released.
The ruling was the first time Sylvester Owino believed he might get out of the San Diego immigration prison where he had spent four yea...
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