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Jan 10, 2008 12:40 pm US/Eastern

Lawyers Argue Padilla And Company Had Minor Roles

MIAMI (CBS4) ― The attorneys of Jose Padilla and two other men convicted of terrorism and conspiracy argue that the men were only minor figures, not leaders in the global Islamic extremist movement.

Those were arguments made Wednesday on the second day of the trio's sentencing hearing. One key legal point is whether any of the three had supervisory roles in the conspiracy.

With several witnesses scheduled to testify and legal arguments still to be made, the hearing will likely continue into next week.

Padilla was held for more than three years as an enemy combatant following his May 2002 arrest in Chicago on suspicion of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" inside the U.S. Those
allegations were dropped and Padilla was added in 2005 to an existing Miami terrorism support case.

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