Lynne Stewart is a long-time civil rights lawyer. She represented Omar Abdel Rahman, the sheik who is serving a life sentence for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks.
Lynne Stewart is being sentenced for "blatantly and...
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Lynne Stewart is a long-time civil rights lawyer. She represented Omar Abdel Rahman, the sheik who is serving a life sentence for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks.
Lynne Stewart is being sentenced for "blatantly and repeatedly" violating prison regulations by helping her client communicate with his followers.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld on Tuesday a disbarred New York lawyer's conviction on charges of supporting terrorism by helping an imprisoned blind Egyptian cleric smuggle messages to militant followers, ordered her to prison and told a judge to consider a longer sentence. The three-judge panel described the 28-month prison sentence given by the trial judge to civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, 70, following her 2005 conviction as "strikingly low" and not matching "the... Read Full Story
A federal appeals court today ordered a convicted terror-coddling civil rights lawyer to begin serving her prison sentence. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld Lynne Stewart’s conviction upon announcing its ruling.
Stewart, 69, (a member of the National Lawyers Guild) was convicted in February 2005 of conspiracy and providing and concealing material support of terrorism for her actions in smuggling messages from “blind sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman to his followers in the... Read Full Story
Criminal defense attorney Lynne Stewart has been convicted of very serious crimes following her involvement with imprisoned terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman. However, you would never know it, as she not only continues to walk free but makes speeches and numerous public appearances in which she often thumbs her nose at the country she betrayed, while describing terrorists as “liberationists.“ Full Article ... Read Full Story
Law & Jihad with Andrew McCarthy: Chapter 1 of 5 View Footage Here 5:47 mins Andrew McCarthy discusses his role in the prosecution of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who is now serving time for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. McCarthy says justice was served in the trial. In terms of national security, however, McCarthy fears the protracted trial only emboldened the enemy. Law & Jihad with Andrew McCarthy: Chapter 2 of 5 View Footage Here 5:57 mins Andy McCarthy discusses the “chasm... Read Full Story
Stewart will seek to have her conviction for acting as a middleman for her terrorist client Sheik Rahman overturned.
The Justice Department isn’t pleased with the outcome of the case, either: It will be arguing that Stewart’s sentence of 28 months, which prompted celebration among her supporters outside the courthouse in 2006, was much too lenient. Prosecutors are aiming for a sentence of several more decades.
Stewart’s case, along with those of two co-defendants, her translator and law... Read Full Story
Despite the outward appearance of infirmity, Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" is a central figure in the Islamic global jihad. He was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to bomb the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, which killed 6 and injured over 1,000. Rahman is now serving a life sentence for that crime. A precocious child, he started studying the Qur’an at an early age, committing much of it to memory. After graduating with a PhD in Qur'anic studies from Al-Azhar University in... Read Full Story
NPR's Margot Adler has a piece on Stewart this morning , who now says she was naive.
Quotes from the article:
Adler:
In a letter to the Judge, John Koeltl, Stewart has expressed her
regrets. Her goal was to improve the prison conditions of her client,
she says, but she was naive not to realize that what might have been
considered legitimate before Sept. 11 would now be interpreted as
criminal. "At the time I didn't see this," she wrote. "I see and
understand it now." She says she... Read Full Story
Technorati shows a chart plotting the number of blog posts that mention Lynne Stewart:
It spiked to over 300 blog posts yesterday!
Clearly the sentencing of Lynne Stewart has sparked some emotion across the country.
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