Saudi princeling who drunkenly ran a man down on Charles Street really wants to get back in the country

A member of the House of Saud who faces arrest if he ever steps foot in the US for violating probation after he killed a man with his car in 2002 has asked a federal court to let him back in the country to argue why the arrest conditions should be lifted.

In 2005, Bader al Saud pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of motor-vehicle homicide for the death of Orlando Ramos of Cambridge and was sentenced to a year in jail - on Martha's Vineyard. After six months, the state parole board agreed to release him - and he was promptly turned over to federal officials, who put him on a plane to Saudi Arabia.

But at the request of the probation department, a judge then issued a warrant for his arrest because he never made a final check in with probation or supplied a DNA sample, as required by state law. Al Saud sought to have the warrant tossed, arguing it wasn't his fault the feds put him on a plane so fast, but the Supreme Judicial Court ruled last year the warrant was valid because al Saud knew well before his flight back home that he had to have some DNA extracted. That ruling means al Saud could be arrested if he ever steps foot in the US again.

In his petition for habeas corpus, filed yesterday in US District Court in Boston, however, al Bader is seeking permission to return to Boston to contest the warrant - arguing in part that by keeping it active, the state's highest court is depriving him of his consitutional right to due process because he would face arrest if he tried to return to contest the warrant.