Posted on 10/16/2006 11:33:35 AM PDT by areafiftyone
NEW YORK -- Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced to 28 months in prison in federal court in Manhattan Monday. She was convicted of providing support to terrorists by helping a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.
Before sentencing, her lawyer told the judge that any prison sentence for Stewart would be a death sentence because of her serious health problems.
Stewart pleaded with the judge to allow her to live out the rest of her life "productively, lovingly, righteously.''
Assistant US Attorney Andrew Dember rejected defense suggestions that Stewart's conduct was judged differently after
9-11.
"This case had nothing to do with September 11,'' Dember told the judge. "What she was doing was smuggling terrorism messages and smuggling out Abdel-Rahman's responses.''
When Stewart arrived at the courthouse this morning, about 150 supporters chanted "Free Lynne, Free Lynne.''
Federal prosecutors say she had released a statement by Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind sheik sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted in plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt's president.
I'm guessing the judge was appointed by The Peanut or Boner Bill....
Please, no sexual references in a thread about this ugly skank....
Did hell just freeze over? Even some of the people at DU think Stewart got a ridiculously light sentence.
A quick glance at truthusa.com/911news2.html:
OFF TOPIC:
INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "ISLAMISTS TARGET CHRISTIAN JOURNALIST ON WEBSITE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Christian journalist and long-time friend of Internet Haganah, Jeremy Reynalds has been targeted for killing by Islamists on the Al Ansar forum (ansarnet.ws). The thread: http://www.ansarnet.ws/vb/showthread.php?t=27276") (February 6, 2005)
Stewart, 67, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, smiled, cried and hugged supporters after U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl announced he was dramatically reducing the 30-year prison sentence called for by federal sentencing guidelines.
The judge said Stewart could remain free pending appeal, a process that could take more than a year.
Outrageous.
Good Gawd, sometimes the WOT appears synonymous with trying to paint a battleship.
Should have been publically hung.
You've got to be kidding me!
She must be laughing her (literally) fat you-know-what off.
I thought the reason we had Federal Sentencing Guidelines was to stop judges like this from giving country club sentences to people like Stewart who commited treason?
Related as in by blood? Do you think they were killed to send a warning to other government translators and not because they were Christian converts?
I think the NRC should be reading FR to find out what is really important... a lot of Freepers could certainly write better campaign ads.
Lovely! Does this sentence justify the costs of pursuing this case? People get more for growing marihuana plants for their own use in their basement. Can a sentence be appealed by the prosecutor, and will this one be appealed?
She should have fried or faced life at best.
No, No...John Denver if he was still alive.
The Rosenberg boys were put into a Jewish orphanage. They were going to be adopted by religious Jews but the Meeropols (Julius & Ethel's comrades in the CPUSA) made themselves guardians and had them taken out of that G-D ridden institution.
Would YOU want to be a judge in that pageant?
Soros paid for her defense and this judge is a clinton appointee so all is well in democrat land and justice gets the shaft.
her lawyer told the judge that any prison sentence for Stewart would be a death sentence
Cry me a river.""
Here's a quarter- Call someone who cares......
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