Verdict Vs. Lawyer in Terror Case Upheld [Lynne Stewart]

AP ^ | 10/25/5 | LARRY NEUMEISTER

[SmithL]

NEW YORK -- Freedom of speech offers no protection for a lawyer convicted of providing material support to terrorists for publicly releasing messages from a notorious jailed sheik, a judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl rejected all of attorney Lynne Stewart's arguments that the February verdict should be tossed out.

Stewart, 65, had argued that her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was engaging in protected speech when he expressed his opinion about a cease fire by Islamic militants in Egypt that Stewart passed along in a 2000 press release.

Koeltl said the sheik's actions were not constitutionally protected, citing the sheik's participation in a conspiracy to kill people in a foreign country while serving a life sentence.

Abdel-Rahman was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy for his advisory role in a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, including the United Nations.

Stewart, who continued to represent the sheik after that trial, . . .

[ncountylee]

Fantastic, now if we can send a few of the ACLU scum to keep her company....

[Snapping Turtle]

Good news. Thanks for posting.

[doug from upland]

Send her away. Great news.

[Fred Nerks]

As a September 2002 piece in the New York Times Magazine showed, Stewart's affection for the Sheikh often reached real depths: "As Stewart got to know her new client, she came to see him as a fighter for national liberation on behalf of a people oppressed by dictatorship and American imperialism. She came to admire him personally too, for his honesty, his strength of character, his teasing humor. 'I've made up my mind,' the sheik would say. 'I'm going to marry you, and that will solve everything.' 'And what do women get if they fight in jihad?' [Stewart] would ask.'"

THE SHEIK WAS BLIND, WASN'T HE?

[SmithL]

Give her a home at Guantanamo.

[Mo1]

Bye Bye Lynn

[NormsRevenge]

December 22nd is the new sentencing date,, she may not be home for Christmas.. her sentencing has been delayed twice already.

[Selene]

Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced Dec. 22.

Good. Send her to Gitmo.

[sageb1]

"Koeltl said the sheik's actions were not constitutionally protected, citing the sheik's participation in a conspiracy to kill people in a foreign country while serving a life sentence."

In effect, this ruling should be the precedent which allows us to ban Islam in the U.S., but...it won't be.

[California Patriot]

Good news. Better news would be 20 years, long enough for her to die in prison.

[SandRat]

One RDDB ACLU Scum down and 999,999 to go.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Solamente]

"By the fleas in Allah's beard, I truly had an eye for Lynne!"

[Calpernia]

Freedom of speech offers no protection for a lawyer convicted of providing material support to terrorists for publicly releasing messages from a notorious jailed sheik, a judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl rejected all of attorney Lynne Stewart's arguments that the February verdict should be tossed out.

Stewart, 65, had argued that her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was engaging in protected speech when he expressed his opinion about a cease fire by Islamic militants in Egypt that Stewart passed along in a 2000 press release.

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping!

[Velveeta]

Excellent news.
I hope they give this swine the max sentence.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I am glad to see good news for a change on the anti-terror front.

[AmericaUnite]

What does she care about Christmas? She's a communist.

[oceanview]

thank goodness they got her, she is vile. Ron Kuby's best buddy.

this judge, who appointed him?