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Parties Involved:
Haichao Huang
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

HAICHAO HUANG,

Defendant.

Case No. 19-cr-00110-SI-1 

ORDER DEFERRING SURRENDER 

DATE

This Court sentenced defendant Haichao Huang to 12 months and one day in prison. See 

Dkt. No. 45. Defendant is not presently in custody; he remains out on pretrial release. He was 

sentenced on March 13, 2020, with a self-surrender date of May 29, 2020. Id. That defendant is on 

pretrial release reflects a determination by a magistrate judge that he is neither a danger to the 

community nor a flight risk. See 18 U.S.C. § 3142(b).

It is apparent that we should not be adding to the prison population during the COVID-19 

pandemic if it can be avoided. Several recent court rulings have explained the health risks—to 

inmates, guards, and the community at large—created by large prison populations. See, e.g., United 

States v. Stephens, No. 15-cr-95-AJN, 2020 WL 1295155, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 19, 2020); United 

States v. Barkman, No. 3:19-cr-0052-RCJ-WGC, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45628 (D. Nev. Mar. 17, 

2020); In the Matter of Extradition of Toledo Manrique, No. 3:19-mj-71055-MAG-1 (TSH), 2020 

WL 1307109 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2020). Complications have already begun inside federal prisons—

inmates and prison employees are starting to test positive for the virus, quarantines are being 

instituted, visits from outsiders have been suspended, and inmate movement is being restricted even 

more than usual. See, e.g., Sadie Gurman, Bureau of Prisons Imposes 14-Day Quarantine to 

Contain Coronavirus, Wall Street Journal (March 24, 2020), https://www.wsj.com/articles/bureauCase 3:19-cr-00110-SI Document 46 Filed 03/27/20 Page 1 of 2
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of-prisons-imposes-14-day-quarantine-to-contain-coronavirus-11585093075. To avoid adding to 

the complications and creating unnecessary health risks, offenders who are on release and scheduled 

to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons in the coming months should, absent extraordinary 

circumstances, have their surrender dates extended until this public health crisis has passed. 

Accordingly, this sua sponte order extends the defendant’s surrender date from May 29, 

2020, to September 1, 2020. Defendant is ordered to self-surrender directly to the designated Bureau 

of Prisons facility on that date, by 2:00 p.m. If a facility has not been designated, he is ordered to 

surrender to the United States Marshal for this district at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, 20th Floor, in 

San Francisco on the same date and time. Should conditions necessitate a longer extension, the 

Court will entertain a request to that effect from defendant.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 27, 2020

______________________________________

SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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