José Padilla | |
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Penalty | (Re)sentenced to 21 years in prison |
Jose Padilla, the American citizen detained as an enemy combatant after he was arrested by the Bush administration in May 2002, was denied contact with his lawyer, his family or anyone else outside the military brig for almost two years and kept in detention for almost four.May 3, 2012
Padilla died in Ibiza, Spain on 18 October 2020 at the age of 64, after a battle with colon cancer.
Jose Padilla, a US citizen convicted for involvement in a terror plot, has been given a new 21-year prison sentence after an appeals court ruled his original sentence was too lenient. In 2007, Padilla, 43, was sentenced to 17 years after being found guilty of terrorism charges.Sep 9, 2014
8, 2003, the Fourth Circuit reversed the District Court's decision and held that Hamdi's habeas corpus petition should be dismissed upon the ground that the judiciary should not intrude into the warmaking authority of the President.
Take the case of José Padilla, a card-carrying American and Muslim convert who was arrested at O'Hare Airport in Chicago as a “material witness” in connection with the 9/11 attacks.
Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the power of the U.S. government to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant ...
2004Hamdi v. Rumsfeld / Date decided
After agreeing to renounce his U.S. citizenship, Hamdi was released on October 9, 2004, without being charged and was deported to Saudi Arabia.
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, holds that federal courts have jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad in connection with hostilities and held at Guantánamo Bay.
On August 16, a Miami federal jury convicted American citizen Jose Padilla on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism. Padilla had been held by the U.S. government in solitary confinement as an enemy combatant for over three-and-a-half years before being indicted and held in a civilian jail. All told, Padilla was incarcerated for five years before he was tried.
On May 8, 2002, Padilla was "detained" on a material witness warrant. On June 9 of that year, he was reclassified as an "enemy combatant." Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed that Padilla had conspired to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the U.S.