Padilla lawyer wants key evidence tossed

Padilla Lawyer Wants Key Evidence Tossed

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-65/1149538171181360.xml&storylist=ornational

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MIAMI (AP) — A lawyer for alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is asking a judge to throw out key evidence, saying the warrant for his arrest was based on statements from one source who claims he was tortured and another who was heavily medicated.

The statements were cited in an FBI affidavit "that distorted the facts in an apparent disregard for the truth," attorney Andrew Patel said in court papers filed late last week.

Padilla was arrested in 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Initially accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major U.S. city, Padilla was designated an enemy combatant and held without charge by the military for 3 1/2 years.

President Bush dropped the combatant label in November and Padilla was indicted in Miami along with four others on charges of being part of a support cell for Islamic extremists. Padilla's trial is set for this fall.

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3 1/2 years in a windowless room.

Has this man not suffered torture? How many of us would not lose our minds under such conditions?

He didn't even know the evidence against him until * dropped the enemy combatant label last Nov.

Imagine *co ever distorting the facts! :sarcasm:

I have a headache and am going to lie down. Back later.

what was done to Padilla stands as a huge miscarriage of justice.

gee, after 3 and a half years, chimpy just 'drops' the 'label' and presto, on with the trial...

Three and a half years in a box.

And when they do charge him, it's simply of being a member of a group, and that info obtained under questionable circumstances.

Thanks BushCo, for putting the inquisition back into the 'justice' system. :grr:

Patel said Muhammad has told his own lawyer that he was whipped, hung from the ceiling of his cell with leather straps and later taken to Morocco where he was tortured with a razor.

Patel said Zubayda was treated after his arrest for gunshot wounds, raising questions about "the effect the medications may have had on Abu Zubayda's ability to provide accurate information."

So one was tortured and the other gave testimony right after being shot by a gun. That's fucking scary about Morocco.

Morocco, borders Spain and Algeria. Didn't Bush start cozying up to Algeria lately?