South by Southeast - Why did erstwhile dirty bomber Jose Padilla get sent to the brig in Charleston, SC instead of joining his fellow mujahid Yaser Esam Hamdi in Norfolk? Perhaps it's because cantankerous U.S. District Judge Robert Doumar had ruled in Norfolk that Hamdi had the right to an attorney, so Ashcroft and friends were looking to get out of the judge's reach while remaining within the territory of the ultra-conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.