Judge rules Padilla competent for trial
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial on terrorism support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by 3 1/2 years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig. Padilla was in court when U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke announced her decision, but he showed no reaction.
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A federal judge ordered a mental exam Monday to determine whether Jose Padilla &#151; charged with being part of a support cell for Islamic extremists around the world &#151; is competent for trial.
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Federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to reinstate a key terrorism charge against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla, contending a judge erred in finding that it duplicated other counts in the same indictment.
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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, the American citizen who was held for more than three years as an enemy combatant, filed a lawsuit against a lawyer who helped provide the legal justifications for the episode.
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Alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla has mild anxiety and personality disorders but is mentally able to stand trial, a prison psychologist said Monday in testimony that contradicted two defense experts.
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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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The administration offers its legal rationale for the long detention of Jose Padilla.
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Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaeda 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 federal judge in Washington Monday ruled that an al-Qaida suspect at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot be tried for war crimes in secrecy.
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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private investigator facing trial on wiretapping and conspiracy charges, can represent himself at trial next month. Judge Dale S. Fischer of United States District Court said she was bound by Supreme Court case law to let Mr. Pellicano do so, but urged him to reconsider. The ruling raises the prospect that Mr. Pellicano, who often grabbed the limelight in his career as an investigator to the stars, would again take center stage at his trial, set to begin Feb. 27. By acting as his own lawyer he will cross-examine prosecution witnesses like Anita Busch, the former journalist who the authorities say was wiretapped by Mr. Pellicano and was threatened in a scheme he orchestrated, as well as other cooperating witnesses who prosecutors say hired Mr. Pellicano to wiretap their adversaries.
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MIAMI, Feb. 16 -- Officials at the Navy brig where terrorism suspect Jose Padilla was held for 3 1/2  years as an enemy combatant were ordered  Friday to testify at a hearing to determine his psychological competency, a ruling that allows the defense to press its claims that sensory deprivation and torture in confinement have rendered the alleged  al-Qaeda operative unfit to stand trial....
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A federal judge on Monday threw out one count in the terror indictment against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and his co-defendants, concluding that it repeated other charges in the same indictment.
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A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that former attorney general John D. Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of a U.S. citizen arrested as a "material witness" in a terrorism case.
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A Chilean judge ruled today that Gen. Augusto Pinochet was competent to stand trial for human rights abuses that occurred while he was in power, and the judge charged
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A U.S. military judge was considering a request Thursday by lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver to interview the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks Â a man they say could prove their client was no terrorist.
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U.S. military prison doctors and staff must testify in court about the treatment of suspected al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla while he was held by presidential order as an "enemy combatant," a judge ruled on Friday.