Padilla 'not fit to stand trial'
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Suspected al-Qaeda conspirator Jose Padilla is not fit to stand trial, a psychiatrist called by his defence says.
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Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla is mentally capable of assisting defense lawyers at his terrorism trial but chooses not to, according to a prison psychologist who testified on Monday that Padilla is fit to stand trial.
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Alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla suffers from intense stress and anxiety after being imprisoned in isolation for years and cannot adequately help his lawyers prepare for a criminal trial, a mental expert testified Thursday.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The disappearance of a witness in a landmark trial, along with threats against judges and prosecutors who reopened ``dirty war" investigations, have sent shivers through Argentina.
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MIAMI, Oct. 6 -- Criminal charges against terrorism suspect Jose Padilla should be thrown out because of "outrageous government conduct" during his 3 1/2 -year detention in a Navy brig in South Carolina, Padilla's attorneys said in legal motions this week.
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Defense attorneys in the Jose Padilla terrorism support trial are going to great lengths to suggest to jurors that jihad is not necessarily Muslim holy war and that mujahedeen could just as easily be freedom fighters as terrorists.
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Attorneys for Jose Padilla and two other men convicted last summer of terrorism and conspiracy argue that even if their clients were involved in a global Islamic extremist movement, they were minor figures, not leaders.
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A federal judge who must decide whether alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is mentally fit for trial said Wednesday that the former Chicago gang member hasn't behaved strangely but may not be cooperating with his attorneys.
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The Jose Padilla trial is a test: Can the US avoid the legal tangles of its 'war on terror' tactics?
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Jose Padilla's lawyers say the accused al-Qaida operative has mental problems stemming from his treatment during 3 1/2 years in solitary confinement and have asked a federal judge to decide whether he is competent to stand trial.
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MIAMI, Feb. 27 -- During his 3 1/2 -year detention as an "enemy combatant," accused al-Qaeda operative Jose Padilla was at various times deprived of a clock, windows and a Koran, and forced to sleep on a metal bed frame without a mattress, according to testimony Tuesday from an official at the Navy brig where he was held in Charleston, S.C....
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Prosecutors can show most of a videotaped 1997 interview with Osama bin Laden to jurors in the terrorism trial of former "dirty bomber" suspect Jose Padilla even though there is no evidence Padilla ever saw it, a judge ruled on Thursday.
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Accused al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla suffers from intense stress and anxiety stemming from his isolated years in military custody and cannot adequately help his lawyers prepare for trial, two defense mental experts testified Thursday.
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Suspected al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla is mentally competent to stand trial on terrorism conspiracy charges, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations.
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A special branch officer admits he may have inadvertently contaminated evidence in a terror trial.
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Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla is mentally unfit to stand trial on terrorism charges and physically unable to tell his lawyers what happened to him in a U.S. military prison, doctors who examined him for the defense said in court on Thursday.