Well, actually, he was a pretty incompetent terrorist, if that is what he was. But he was found competent to stand trial.
After three and a half days of an intensely argued hearing, Judge Marcia G. Cooke of Federal District Court rejected the defense lawyers’ request that Mr. Padilla be sent to a hospital for psychiatric treatment so that he could be “healed” from what they said was post-traumatic stress disorder caused during his three years and eight months in military detention.
About what I expected. Now the real battle begins: Cooke next must consider the defense motion to dismiss the charges based on what it says is the government's outrageous conduct.
The conduct was indeed outrageous; the only question is whether it was outrageous enough to compel an acquittal.
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