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...government's right to hold her client. After the hearing, Padilla was incarcerated in the nearby Metropolitan Correctional Center--less than a mile from ground zero--where he spent 23 hours a day in lockdown. When he did leave his cell, he wore leg and wrist shackles. Judge Michael Mukasey, a conservative with a tough-but-fair reputation, was scheduled to rule on the matter on June 11, but he never got the chance. On June 10, Newman was driving to work when she got a call from a friend at court: Padilla was no longer in New York...
...called habeas corpus, and it's designed to force the government to bring a prisoner before a judge; the prosecution must make the case for holding the prisoner or let him go. On June 12, Newman submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to Judge Mukasey, and that day he appointed a co-counsel to help Newman handle the workload: Andrew Patel, 50, a genial veteran with a hearty laugh who is no stranger to controversial clients. In 1997 he defended El Sayyid Nosair, a convicted assassin suspected of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing from prison...
...private life. As a lawyer, she has a natural antipathy to being interviewed--she likes to be the one asking the questions, thank you. She will not allow her husband or children to be named in the media. And she is terrified that her colleagues--or worse yet, Mukasey--will think she is grandstanding...
...winning? At this point Newman is just fighting for the right to keep on fighting, and by that standard she is doing pretty well. On July 31, Judge Mukasey summoned both sides to his chambers and asked them to file briefs expanding and clarifying their points of view. Newman's brief is due on Sept. 13--a Friday. It's a victory of sorts: Mukasey could have dismissed the matter on the spot or had it moved to South Carolina, but he didn't. The hearing also had a surprise special guest: Principal Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement, a conservative...
...terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case was tried here, it implicates the U.S. in what has up to now been an Egyptian domestic...