Lynne Stewart-Lawyer to Radicals May Face Prison Term

[GI Joe]

This traitorous excrement deserves the max 30 year sentence.


NEW YORK -- She's already a grandmother of 14, a cancer survivor and a former civil rights lawyer who took on radical clients others considered toxic.

Lynne Stewart will soon find out if she will be forced to assume another role _ prison inmate.

"I couldn't tell you I'm not stressed," Stewart said about her Monday sentencing in a Manhattan terrorism case. "I'm very concerned."

Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to impose a 30-year term for what they described in court papers as Stewart's "extremely dangerous and devious" conduct to help an Egyptian terrorist leader communicate with followers.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500471.html

[GI Joe]

Attorney to be sentenced for aiding terrorists

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a letter to the judge, civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart proclaimed "I am not a traitor."

She acknowledged that she zealously tried to save a blind Egyptian sheik from life in prison for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks.

But she argued that the government's characterization of her was wrong and took unfair advantage of the "hysteria that followed 9/11 and that was re-lived during the trial."

On Monday, that judge was to decide whether Stewart, 67, should join her former client behind bars for enabling him to communicate with his followers. Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

Stewart was convicted in February 2005 of providing material support to terrorists. She had released a statement by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who she represented at his 1995 trial and who was sentenced to life in prison for plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt's president.

In court papers, prosecutors told U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl that Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group, deserves to be severely punished."


http://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/16/terror.trial.ap/

[muffins]

Is this the woman who released a client's statement at a press conference when her client was subject to a ban from all outside contact, both incoming and outgoing?

[GI Joe]

Is this the woman who released a client's statement at a press conference when her client was subject to a ban from all outside contact, both incoming and outgoing?


She gave messages to his followers

[muffins]

She practically asked for it then

[IDK]

Didn't get ur wish, Joe.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_on_re_us/terror_trial

NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison on a terrorism charge for helping a client who plotted to blow up New York City landmarks communicate with his followers, a sentence far less than 30 years prosecutors wanted.

"If you send her to prison, she's going to die. It's as simple as that," defense lawyer Elizabeth Fink had told the judge before the sentence was pronounced.

Stewart, who was treated last year for breast cancer, was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists. She had released a statement by Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian sheik sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted in plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt's president.

For some reason, I feel there is more to this story. Oh well.

[patrickt]

I read that Rahman was exhorting his followers to violence and he was prohibited from having contact with anyone but his wife and his lawyer. Lynne Stewart was advised of the conditions by a judge, agreed to them, and then smuggled messages out of meetings with Rahman for his followers.

So, she's guilty. But is, "She's old and sick and will die in prison," a defense or a reason to avoid prison? If it is, I'm getting pretty old and there's banks to be robbed.

[faithfulservant]

I read that Rahman was exhorting his followers to violence and he was prohibited from having contact with anyone but his wife and his lawyer. Lynne Stewart was advised of the conditions by a judge, agreed to them, and then smuggled messages out of meetings with Rahman for his followers.

So, she's guilty. But is, "She's old and sick and will die in prison," a defense or a reason to avoid prison? If it is, I'm getting pretty old and there's banks to be robbed.
"Alright, everyone put thier hands up!! YOU!!! Come here and help me with this gun! It's getting heavy and my arthritis is acting up. YOU, YOU and YOU. Start filling those bags with money and YES, I do want a carry out."

[mtlhdtodd]

Another judge with ecoli for brains who gives a nonrepentant gutless can't understand normal thinking criminal a less than usless sentence. I don't care how sick she is or how long she'll live, as long as she's in the grey bar hotel. Hell, she'll spend her time, if she actually does any, in a club fed somwhere with all the comforts of home.