[lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

sean sullivan seansullivan at earthlink.net, Thu Feb 10 12:41:37 PST 2005:
>February 10, 2005
>Lawyer Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>Filed at 3:26 P.M. ET
>
>A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the 
>line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed 
>clients -- a radical Egyptian sheik -- to his terrorist disciples on 
>the outside.
>
>The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the 
>case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for 
>representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New 
>York legal scene. The jury deliberated 13 days in all.
>
>Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of giving material 
>support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.
>
>The trial focused attention on the line between zealous advocacy and 
>criminal behavior by a lawyer. Some defense lawyers saw the case as 
>a government warning to attorneys to tread carefully in terrorism 
>cases.
>
>The jury also convicted a U.S. postal worker, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, of 
>plotting to "kill and kidnap persons in a foreign country" by 
>publishing an edict urging the killing of Jews and their supporters. 
>A third defendant, Arabic interpreter Mohamed Yousry, was convicted 
>of providing material support to terrorists. Sattar could face life 
>in prison and Yousry up to 20 years.

This is terrible news.
-- 
Yoshie

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