without being arraignearraigned. now, he was later found tried and found guilty on charges totally separate from the ones for which he was arrested and held so now he's been convicted to life in prison, and there he is in prison. a bad guy likely found to be guilty of plotting against the united states, but it should arouse your attention, it should arouse your concern, p if you are an american and your fellow citizen can be picked up in the united states and held without being charged with anything for two and a half years. when i worked up a book proposal on the padilla case and shopped it around to publishers, nobody wanted to print it because it was a downer, as one publisher said. now, yes, that's one of the reasons why it would be a good book, frankly. it's a downer. it's a downer that it can happen. it's a downer that it did happen. it's a downer that jose padilla, because he was a puerto rican gang banger and not the head of the local lions club or rotary can be stuck waway in a prison without anybody giving