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...goal of making video gaming more accessible and social for students. “You can play computer games alone in your room, or you can play with friends and make a memorable experience out of it,” Decker said. A similar initiative was attempted for a trial period in Lowell House two years ago, but did not draw enough interest to remain open. The Lowell gaming room required players to bring their own gaming systems, and according to Lowell House Administrator Beth Terry, the space was simply too small to hold large groups of students...
...Padilla might well be a very bad man. But as he and two co-defendants face these charges in a trial expected to last four months, his story sounds depressingly familiar. Last September, the Justice Department crowed of 288 convictions or guilty pleas obtained in "terrorism-related cases." But the 288 were under a third of the total investigated, and only 81 brought sentences of five years or more...
...Cooke has also given the government headaches. The case, which consists of three counts against Padilla and his co-defendants for "conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim" and give "material support" to terrorist activity, "is very light on the facts," she told prosecutors during a pre-trial hearing last summer. Just as significant, Cooke threw out the "conspiracy to murder" count because, she ruled, it duplicated the conspiracy mentioned in the two other counts. Her decision would have eliminated the possibility of a life sentence, leaving a maximum of 15 years in prison for each defendant, had it not been...
...trial motions, Padilla's attorneys have consistently tried to steer attention to what happened to Padilla during his three years and eight months in military detention - and to some degree Cooke has allowed them to do that. They contend that Padilla was tortured: fed LSD and other drugs, exposed to extreme temperatures, shackled in "stress positions" and deprived of sleep. The torture, they argue, made Padilla mentally unfit to stand trial and so undermined his constitutional right to a fair process that the whole case should be thrown...
...prosecutors fought intensely to block such testimony or let any information seep into the public record about what might have happened during Padilla's detention. And if it ever existed, the evidence of a dirty bomb and attacks on apartment buildings is not expected to appear in the trial - possibly because it was obtained through improper interrogation of witnesses like Zubaydah (who says he was tortured) or even of Padilla, who at the very least was questioned without an attorney present, a no-no under the rules of criminal procedure...