I hereby appoint Rick Swedloff, an attorney currently living in Philadelphia, PA, to represent me in any habeas corpus hearings if I am detained without counsel for being an enemy combatant. Hopefully, this blog entry will prevent the US government from arguing, as they have against Yaser Hamdi, that the public defender has no right to petition to provide counsel to Hamdi because the attorney has not had a chance to confer with the client he is petitioning to represent. Joseph Heller is laughing in his grave. The 4th circuit ruled today “that a public defender could not represent him because they did not know each other.”
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