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Lynne Stewart
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... [more]
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.
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“Disbarred civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, convicted four years ago of shuttling messages from imprisoned Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman meant for senior members of an Egypt-based terrorist organization, was ordered to prison Tuesday by a federal appeals panel to begin serving her sentence. … Stewart was convicted of using her status as Abdel-Rahman’s lawyer to violate [...]
- Appeals Court Suggests More Prison Time For Lynne Stewart (gothamist.com)
- Breaking: Terror-abetting attorney ordered to prison immediately ( Lynne... (freerepublic.com)
- Finally ............. the pig will go to the pen (atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com)
She’s 70, and began serving a 28 month sentence, which could be increased to 30 years. She was also disbarred after passing the following message from her client to a group designated as terrorist.
“I [Omar Abdel-Rahman] am not withdrawing my support of the cease-fire, I am merely questioning it and I am urging you, who [...]
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- Second Circuit affirms civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart conviction (jurist.law.pitt.edu)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 :Civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been ordered to prison to begin serving a two-and-a-half year sentence after a federal appeals court upheld her conviction on Tuesday. Lynne Stewart was found guilty in 2005 of distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the blind sheikh, who is serving a life sentence on terror-related charges. The panel also described...
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From indybay.org
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NEW YORK (AP) — They grew up in a home like no other — where bullets arrived in the mail and where their father went to the basement to open packages he feared could contain explosives.
That was life for the daughters of the late civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, whose clients ranged from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman to John Gotti. Now his daughters are telling their stories — and bringing him back to life on...
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From eagletribune.com
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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a disbarred civil rights lawyer and ordered her to begin serving her sentence while a judge reconsiders whether he was too lenient in giving her more than two years in prison for passing information between suspected terrorists.
Lynne Stewart, 70, has been free on appeal since she was sentenced in 2006. The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued...
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- The mis-incarceration of Lynne Stewart (workers.org)
- Francis van den Heuvel, "Lynne Stewart: An American Story" (monthlyreview.org)
- Second Circuit issues huge opinion in Lynne Stewart... (sentencing.typepad.com)
By Stephen LendmanOn November 20, New York Times writer Colin Moynihan broke the news headlining:"Radical Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorist Is Jailed," then saying:"Defiant to the end as she embraced supporters outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, Lynne F. Stewart, the radical lawyer known for defending unpopular clients, surrendered on Thursday to begin serving her 28-month sentence for assisting terrorism."Fact check:Stewart...
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From palestinechronicle.com
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People's Attorney Lynne Stewart of New York City was taken into custody on November 19, 2009. Stewart was convicted of providing information to her client who was falsely accused of terrorism.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosThe mis-incarceration of Lynne StewartPublished Nov 25, 2009 9:24 AMBy Iyanna “Nana Soul” JonesNew YorkOn Nov. 19, longtime civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart was ordered by Judge John G. Koeltl to...
From panafricannews.blogspot.com
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- The Mis-Incarceration of Lynne Stewart (feedburner.com)
In a decision that reflects the post-911 terrorism hysteria, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed prominent civil rights attorney Lynne Stewarts convictions and remanded her case to district court Judge John G. Koeltl to reconsider her sentence. The appellate panel directed Koeltl to remand Stewart to custody and the 70-year-old woman is now in prison.
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- Marjorie Cohn, "Lynne Stewart: Casualty of the 'War on Terror'" (monthlyreview.org)
- Petition Demands End to Attacks on Muslims; Free Lynne Stewart! (panafricannews.blogspot.com)
- Clinton Passed On Trying Lynne Stewart (sweetness-light.com)
If you're a sexxxy lady, reactionary New York Post sex columnist Andrea Peyser will rhapsodize about your long, smooth legs. But if you're an ugly, fat, liberal lady (by Peyser standards), Andrea Peyser wishes you death. Lonely, ugly, fat death. Andrea today issues her sentencing recommendations in the case of liberal lawyer Lynne Stewart: Let the fat bitch rot. That is an accurate summary! Let her rot. Charismatic terror monger Lynne Stewart...
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From gawker.com
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Lynne Stewart, the much admired civil rights attorney who is struggling with cancer, has had her bail has revoked, and she is now being held in jail after a Federal Court ruled on her appeal last Tuesday. On November 23, demonstrators in San Francisco protested against the ruling.
From indybay.org
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- Free Lynne Stewart (pslweb.org)
- Free Lynne Stewart! (freerepublic.com)
- Lynne Stewart Sent To Prison (portland.indymedia.org)
Our main focus at this time is the next court date. Lynne has a 28-month sentence. If you have read the 2nd Circuit decision (and you can by going to the web site for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, look under decisions and you will find USA v. Stewart), you will find that the sentence that Lynne has received is threatened, meaning it could go higher. Our goal is to show the steadfast support that Lynne has from the community, Lynne...
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From monthlyreview.org
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Immediately following an uplifting rally, Lynne Stewart was escorted by a determined crowd of supporters to jail and is now incarcerated in the Manhattan Correctional Center. As fortune would have it, she will be there for at least 10 months, perhaps longer, that is, a good part the total term of 28 months. If other events don't intervene, it is possible that her entire term might be served at the MCC. "Better there than a federal prison...
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Lynne Stewart in Jail! Protest Lynne Stewart's incarceration! San Francisco Federal Courthouse, 7th and Mission, SF, Monday, November 23, 5:00 pm. Dear Friends of Lynne Stewart, I just got off the phone with Lynne Stewart a few minutes ago, that is, late Wednesday (early Thursday, November 19, New York time). She bravely told me that she has been ordered to report to U.S. Federal Marshals to be imprisoned at 5 pm, Thursday, November 19...
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From monthlyreview.org
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A panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of my old adversary, Lynne Stewart, for providing material support to terrorism -- i.e., helping the Blind Sheikh run his Egyptian terrorist organization from U.S. prison, where he is serving a life-sentence. The convictions and sentences of the other two defendants were also affirmed. Lynne, who has been out on bail since being convicted eons ago, has been ordered...
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Perhaps this is why Obama is taking such a soft approach to terrorists: NEW YORK A disbarred lawyer convicted in a terrorism case should report to prison by Thursday after an appeals court upheld her conviction, a judge said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl said 70-year-old Lynne Stewart should surrender by 5 p.m. Thursday to begin serving a two-year, four-month sentence for her 2005 conviction. Koeltl had allowed her to remain...
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