News Plead guilty or we'll label you an enemy combatant

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Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was charged to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing his indefinite confinement without formal charges, according to Jenny Martinez, a Stanford Law Professor and member of his legal team. The Bush administration aims to claim the case is moot by filing criminal charges, thereby avoiding scrutiny from the Supreme Court. Martinez warns that if the trial does not proceed favorably for the administration, they could revert to labeling Padilla as an enemy combatant, denying him the right to a trial. She references other cases where defendants were pressured to plead guilty or face enemy combatant status, raising concerns about the implications for American justice. The discussion also touches on the broader issues of fairness in the legal system and the symbolic meaning of justice as represented in the Supreme Court's architecture.
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According to Jenny Martinez - Stanford Univ Law Professor and a member of Jose Padilla's legal team - Padilla was charged to avoid Supreme Court review of his case. The Surpreme court was to consider his confinement - held indefinitely without formal charges filed. By filing criminal charges, the Bush admin hopes to avoid Supreme Court review by claiming the point is moot - the mootness doctrine. But, she says, as they have done in the past, if they don't like the way the trial proceeds, the Bush admin can simply pull the plug, cite his enemy combatant status, and lock him away without the right to a trial.

Padilla is a US citizen.

Martinez cites other cases in which the defendant was allegedly told to plead guilty or be charged as an enemy combatant.

Can you think of anything more un-american than this?

Listen to the audio "Padilla Charged", from Nov 23rd, 2005.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
- the mootness doctrine.
Lol, and I thought this option was used exclusively in parenting.
Martinez cites other cases in which the defendant was allegedly told to plead guilty or be charged as an enemy combatant.
Can you think of anything more un-american than this?
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Honestly, it sounds about as American as you can get. Perhaps you've not known any young or poor people involved with the legal system?
 
Having grown up in part with poor ghetto kids, I can tell you all about it. But that's another discussion...

Also, I think the mootness doctrine applies to marriage as well. Tsu and I decide how we wish to do something such as how to remodel the house. A week later, everything that I said is moot. :biggrin:
 
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A chunk of marble fell from near the roof of the U.S. Supreme Court onto the stairs in the front of the building but no one was injured...

...The marble was above the inscription near the top of the building saying, "Equal Justice Under Law" and above the allegorical figure representing "Order," one of nine sculptured figures on the pediment...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-28T164743Z_01_SIB856755_RTRUKOC_0_US-COURT-ROOF.xml&archived=False

Excuse me while I stop to contemplate the symbolism... :rolleyes:
 

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