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Padilla Lawyer: Charge Him or Release Him  view story
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
AP's LARRY O'DELL - - Austin American-Statesman
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A lawyer for Jose Padilla, an American accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," went before a federal appeals court Tuesday and demanded the U.S. government either charge his client with a crime or set him free.
But a Bush administration lawyer told the court that the president must have authority to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists who come to the United States intent on killing civilians.
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