Lynne Stewart

A judge was poised to decide whether the government and some fellow judges were right when they said a 70-year-old former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case received too much leniency when she was sentenced to just over two years in prison. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl was to resentence attorney Lynne Stewart on Thursday after considering the comments of appeals court judges who said he should review the role of terrorism in her case and consider if she lied when she...Read Full Story

by Michael Steven Smith - "At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology." -- Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do. I was in the courtroom with my wife Debby the afternoon of July 19th for her re-sentencing. Judge John Koeltl buried her alive. We should have seen it coming when he told her to take all the time she needed at the start when she spoke before the sentence was read. It didn't matter...Read Full Story

The common political agendas of the legal left and their terrorist clients, along with their hypocrisy in opposing the Patriot Act are exemplified by Lynne Stewart, the attorney for the “blind sheik” who masterminded the first World Trade Center attack. Since her indictment by the Ashcroft Justice Department, Stewart has become their martyr and icon. Lynne Stewart is a protégé of William Kuntsler and Ramsey Clark who was the person who originally suggested that Stewart sign on as attorney...Read Full Story

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

Lynne Stewart is a terrorist and a traitor and ideally she should have received the death penalty. That wasn’t the way the pantywaist Clinton-appointed Judge John G. Koeltl saw it in 2006 when he sentenced the radical anti-American lawyer who became a willing participant in an Islamic terrorist plot to a mere 28 months in prison-a fraction of the 30-year term the government sought. But things have changed. The septuagenarian  Stewart has been resentenced , this time to a 10-year prison...Read Full Story

by Sharon Kyle Lynne Stewart is a woman who was an attorney. For more than thirty years she represented controversial, and often unpopular defendants. Because of work she did in providing legal council to one of her clients she was charged with conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists. In 2005 she was convicted of those charges. As a result of that conviction, in 2005 she was disbarred as well as sentenced to 28 months in prison. For reasons that are not entirely clear...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

After receiving a slap on the wrist four years ago for aiding and abetting Islamist terrorism, the bell is finally tolling for disbarred lawyer Lynne Stewart. Stewart received a mere 28-month sentence in 2006 for passing on orders from her client, the so-called Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, to his Egyptian terrorist organization known as the Islamic Group. Abdel-Rahman, who is also spiritual leader of al-Qaeda and other militant Islamist groups, was convicted for orchestrating the 1993...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

Darkness in America: Lynne Stewart’s Resentencing by Stephen Lendman July 15, 2010 Describing Lynne, one of this writer’s previous articles said the following: She worked selfishly, tirelessly, and heroically for 30 years as a human rights champion, defending America’s poor, underprivileged, and unwanted – people never afforded due process and judicial fairness without an advocate like her. She knew the risks, yet took them courageously until bogusly indicted on April 9, 2002...Read Full Story