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In Civilian Court, Padilla Found Guilty
The allegations of dirty bombs were dropped. But that was hardly consolation to Jose Padilla, who faces life in prison after being convicted in Miami last week of being part of a terrorist cell. The Chicago native was first detained in 2002 and held without charge for 3½ years on suspicions that he plotted to detonate a radioactive bomb in the United States. But questions over his military custody—and interrogation without a lawyer—turned Padilla into a symbol of the problems of the Bush administration's approach to terrorist suspects. The legal questions of his prolonged detention were never resolved. Just as the Supreme Court was to hear his appeal, the administration transferred him to civilian custody on much lesser charges of terrorism support.
Duct-Tape Plan Falls Apart
If Kasey Kazee's intention was to rob an Ashland, Ky., liquor store anonymously by wrapping his head in duct tape, he must be disappointed. Not only did the store manager beat him away with a wooden club (itself wrapped in duct tape), but the robber escaped with only two rolls of coins. Fleeing the club-wielding manager, Kazee made it as far as the parking lot, where another store employee tackled him and placed him in a chokehold until police arrived. Kazee faces charges of first-degree robbery.
Stories and photos of the sticky stickup man spread like kudzu across the Internet, where Kazee—now anything but anonymous—was christened the "duct-tape bandit."
With Nikki Schwab, Emma Schwartz and Alex Kingsbury
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