The masterminds of the attacks, Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, are in U.S. custody, yet justice for them is not even on the radar screen.
Earlier this month, a unit of gendarmerie kidnapped Senussi's daughter, Anoud, from the custody of justice ministry police in Tripoli, underlining the government's inability to control its own security forces.
"Do nude pictures of parents help judges decide who should get custody?" asked Justice Alex Pazaratz in his March 29 ruling.
A long series of court hearings came to a head last week when a judge awarded custody to Christopher Justice, according to the Indy Star.
The attorney-general, Janet Reno, later announced that the two men were among eight cult members in custody, and a justice department spokesman added that they had confessed to setting the fires with torches.
Nancy Rosenbloom, the director of the Legal Aid Society's juvenile rights division, whose lawyers represent more than half of the young people in Juvenile Justice custody, said she was "skeptical but hopeful" that the hospitals corporation would do a better job.
He was remanded into custody by trial judge Mr Justice Hamblen and will be sentenced next week when the court will hear psychiatric evidence.
A mother in a bitter child-custody battle before Justice Gerald Garson told the district attorney's office that she had been told that her husband had bribed the judge to fix the case.
Addressing the question of its own jurisdiction under the 1996 law, the Ninth Circuit then said that although the Supreme Court had never explicitly considered youth as a factor in analyzing a Miranda custody case, the justices had treated youth as relevant in other criminal contexts.
But Mr. Padilla's transfer from military custody to the civilian justice system rendered his legal claims, "at least for now, hypothetical," Justice Kennedy said in the explanatory opinion, which the two other justices signed.
