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...local ER: if somebody needs a lawyer, she is it. "All I knew was, I had this assignment," she says, "and I had to come in that day." As it turned out, on May 15 somebody needed a lawyer very badly indeed. That was the day that Jose Padilla--former Chicago gang member, alleged would-be dirty bomber for al-Qaeda, constitutional test case for the new millennium--arrived in New York City. And by pure chance, it fell to Newman to defend him--which is how an obscure criminal-defense lawyer began her transformation into a crusader...
...21st floor of a federal building in downtown Manhattan, she did not agonize over the moral calculus of defending a suspected terrorist. She did what Americans everywhere have done since Sept. 11: her job. She disputed the 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...
...Chile under Pinochet, Somalia. Then ask yourself how safe you would feel living in those countries. I would not feel very safe living in a country where the government can arrest and detain indefinitely any citizen it chooses without trial or due process, as in the case of Jose Padilla. BRUCE ZUIDEMA Robbinsville...
...naval base in Norfolk, VA. Hamdi lacks the homegrown factor that may have helped Lindh; he has lived with his family in Saudi Arabia for much of his life. He has been held without access to an attorney since his capture earlier this year. The second domestic terrorist, Jose Padilla, is under arrest for allegedly conspiring with al-Qaeda operatives to execute a terrorist...
...avoided the use of secret military tribunals with have come under harsh criticism at home and abroad. If nothing else, the successful use of the civilian court system in Lindh's case is something of a public relations triumph, and one that might influence whether Hamdi and Padilla are tried in civilian or military courts. It's easier to fight a war when you are not employing unpopular methods, and Cassel thinks the prosecution of the two men may eventually reflect this insight. "The government needs to take another look at the other cases in light of what's happened...