The sham of the Padilla trial
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
04/30/07
Jury selection in the Jose Padilla case is now under way in federal district court in Miami, but the trial is nothing more than a sham. Why? Because no matter how the jury rules, Padilla is almost certain to remain incarcerated for a long time. If Padilla is convicted by the jury, the judge will likely sentence him to serve much of the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary for having conspired to violate federal criminal laws against terrorism. On the other hand, if Padilla is acquitted, the U.S. military is likely to exercise its post-9/11-acquired power to declare Americans (and foreigners) ‘enemy combatants’ in the war on terror and throw Padilla back into a military dungeon. That is where he was before the government, as part of a clever legal maneuver that was obviously designed to avoid Supreme Court review of Padilla’s request for habeas-corpus relief, converted him from an ‘enemy combatant’ in the war on terror to a federal-court criminal defendant charged with violating federal terrorism laws...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0704p.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
by Jacob G. Hornberger
04/30/07
Jury selection in the Jose Padilla case is now under way in federal district court in Miami, but the trial is nothing more than a sham. Why? Because no matter how the jury rules, Padilla is almost certain to remain incarcerated for a long time. If Padilla is convicted by the jury, the judge will likely sentence him to serve much of the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary for having conspired to violate federal criminal laws against terrorism. On the other hand, if Padilla is acquitted, the U.S. military is likely to exercise its post-9/11-acquired power to declare Americans (and foreigners) ‘enemy combatants’ in the war on terror and throw Padilla back into a military dungeon. That is where he was before the government, as part of a clever legal maneuver that was obviously designed to avoid Supreme Court review of Padilla’s request for habeas-corpus relief, converted him from an ‘enemy combatant’ in the war on terror to a federal-court criminal defendant charged with violating federal terrorism laws...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0704p.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
rudkla - 1. Mai, 17:23
