Lawyer Guilty Of Aiding Terrorists
 

AP


Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted Thursday of helping an Egyptian sheik maintain contact with terrorist disciples worldwide while in solitary confinement for a 1995 conspiracy to blow up New York landmarks.

The Manhattan federal jury was in its 13th day of deliberations in the case against Stewart, 65, a fixture on the New York legal scene for 30 years.

Stewart faced up to 20 years in prison giving material support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.

The most serious counts on which she was convicted were conspiracy and providing and concealing material support of terrorism.

Stewart sat stoically in a courtroom filled with her supporters, who gasped when the verdict was read.

The anonymous jury also convicted a U.S. postal worker, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, of conspiracy for plotting to "kill and kidnap persons in a foreign country," for instance by publishing a fatwah urging the killing of Jewish people and their supporters "wherever they are."

A third defendant, Arabic interpreter Mohamed Yousry, was convicted of providing material support to terrorists.

The trial focused attention on the boundaries between zealous advocacy and alleged criminal behavior by a lawyer. Some defense lawyers saw it as a government warning for attorneys to tread softly in terrorism cases.

The jury heard two vastly different portraits of Stewart. Prosecutors described her as an essential and willing aide to terrorists, while defense attorney Michael Tigar focused on a lengthy legal career of representing the destitute and the despised.





Lynne Stewart

Maybe she will share a cell with her sister martha now all we need is Jane and Hillery to join them.

The expressions, "Dumber than a stump," and, "Uglier than a mud fence" immediatley come to mind. If she didn't know she was violating the law by her acts, she should have been disbarred long ago. If she did know, she should have been shot long ago. Maybe the reason why some of her clients are despised is because they are vermin who want to kill us. May she rot in prison for the remainder of her sorry life.