Here's a December ruling favorable to the gvt in the Padilla case: http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/04/padilla.ruling/index.html
Note this has not been affirmed by an appeals court (yet). -Declan On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:25:42PM -0600, Wes Hellman wrote: > Oh, it seems that I've missed the fact that the situation I was talking > about seems to be playing itself out nicely with that dirty bomb guy. > Sure, the court didn't say that this applied to his case, but they > didn't say it *didn't* apply, either. They've left it wide open. I > suspect it won't be long before a similar ruling is made for him.
