I see. So he was found in possession of money, gasp, and John Ashcroft doesn't like.
Sentence: Life.
Wow, can't wait till the next Janet Reno.
There's more to this, and you know it. Though if you feel that Padilla should be able to engage in radiological homicide of Americans - as the evidence suggets he was plotting - so that the civil rights of all Americans somehow by that process are otherwise protected...it's your right to say it.