First WTC attack
Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Resentenced to 10-Year Term
AmeriKan message to defense lawyers: Do not defend "terrorists."
"N.Y. lawyer gets 10 years in prison in terror case" by Associated Press | July 16, 2010
NEW YORK — A 70-year-old civil rights lawyer was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison in a terrorism case by a judge who boosted her original sentence by nearly eight years after concluding she lied to a jury and lacked remorse.
I'm having a real hard time buying that, sorry.
“I’m somewhat stunned,’’ Lynne Stewart told US District Judge John G. Koeltl after he announced the sentence for her conviction for letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers despite restrictions in place to prevent it.
So am I.
The sentence, nearly four times longer than the two-year, four-month sentence she originally received in 2006, left Stewart sobbing in her prison uniform after Koeltl described his reasons for increasing the prison time significantly.
An appeals court had ordered a new sentencing, saying the terrorism component of the case needed to be considered, along with whether she committed perjury at her trial. The court said it had “serious doubts’’ whether her original sentence was reasonable.
The judge said public comments Stewart made after her first sentencing showed him that the “original sentence was not sufficient.’’
He said she showed “a lack of remorse for conduct that was both illegal and potentially lethal.’’
Outside court after her original sentence, Stewart said she could do the prison time standing on her head.
Koeltl found that Stewart “willfully testified falsely at the trial’’ on numerous points, including in telling jurors she did not make Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman available to his followers and did not violate government rules meant to silence the sheik.Wait until you see why.
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Related:
"One of the main operatives the CIA had utilized in its war against the Soviets was Sheik Abdel Omar Rahman. The CIA utilized Rahman because of his influence over the Mujahadeen, then brought him into the U.S. on a CIA-sponsored visa. While the Sheik was eventually convicted for conspiracy to bomb targets in the U.S., prosecutors encountered resistance in pursuing him and other World Trade Center bombing suspects because of their ties to the Mujahadeen, and their ties to U.S. intelligence....
During a conversation between a 20-year veteran FBI agent and one of his top undercover operatives, the operative asked:
"Why aren't we going after the Sheik [Adbel Rahman]?" demanded the undercover man.
"It's hands off," answered the agent.
"Why?" asked the operative.
"It was no accident that the Sheik got a visa and that he's still in the country," replied the agent, visibly upset. "He's here under the banner of national security, the State Department, the NSA, and the CIA."
The agent pointed out that the Sheik had been granted a tourist visa, and later a green card, despite the fact that he was on a State Department terrorist watch-list that should have barred him from the country. He's an untouchable, concluded the agent.…--MORE--"
Did any of that come out at trial?
Also see: Israel's Defense Attorneys
