A Miami federal judge on Monday threw out the lead count of a conspiracy indictment against Jose Padilla and two co-defendants in the latest setback for the government in its bid to prosecute the trio as terror supporters. The defense team in the case successfully characterized the first count of the indictment, alleging "a conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country," as multiplicitous of the second and third counts in the indictment.
August 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A Miami federal judge on Monday threw out the lead count of a conspiracy indictment against Jose Padilla and two co-defendants in the latest setback for the government in its bid to prosecute the trio as terror supporters.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke threw out the first count of the indictment against Padilla, a former Broward County resident, and Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, making the possibility of a life sentence much more difficult for prosecutors to achieve.
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