I'm glad to see that a normal judicial process is being used to try Mr. Tsarnaev. Past terrorism cases globally have been fraught with both false suspicion and false convictions, even in contexts where a normal judicial process was used. (Google, for example, "Guildford Four.") I wish that I could say that this resolves the significant issues that were first raised when Jose Padilla was detained in 2002, but it does not. The significant difference between the way those two people were handled appears to be a consequence of political prerogative.

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