Lynne Stewart

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 seriousness of her criminal conduct." The appeals court ordered the trial judge to think about lengthening the sentence, noting that the judge had declined to consider ... 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 Islamic terror group Gama’a al-Islamiyya. READ THE DECISION AGAINST STEWART Stewart was sentenced to just two years behind bars. But the appeals court also ordered her resentenced — saying 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 between the Islam of Western fantasy and the Islam that actually exists.” For one, the Islamic ideology of jihad, ... 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 clerk, will be argued Tuesday afternoon before the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. The panel of three judges hearing the case will review whether the ... Read Full Story