From: "Phil Payne" 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120400296
.html

As I predicted when his treatment started, no civil court can convict this man:

"The papers include an affidavit from Dr. Angela Hegarty, a New York
psychiatrist who met with Padilla for 22 hours over several days this year.
Hegarty said that Padilla appears to suffer from post-traumatic stress
disorder and is unable to adequately help prepare his defense.

"When approached by his attorneys, he begs them 'please, please,
please' not to have to discuss his case," Hegarty wrote. "He
refuses to watch the videos of his interrogation and he refuses to answer
questions pertaining to aspects of the evidence in his case."

Patel said in court papers that his client fears being returned to the brig
if he discusses what happened there and that "he often exhibits facial
tics, unusual eye movements and contortions of his body" when the
subject of his detention comes up.

"Mr. Padilla remains unsure if I and the other other attorneys working
on his case are actually his attorney or another component of the
government's interrogation scheme," said Patel, who has represented
Padilla for four years."

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