[Riptides]

That is one ugly mutt.

[gridlock]

Nothing to do with 9/11?

OBL read and copied the Fatwa that Stewart smuggled out of the jail.

OBL finished the job that Stewart's client started.

How is it possible that this had nothing to do with 9/11? That just doesn't make any sense.

[libstripper]

Title 18, section 3742(b) of the United States Code provides:

(b) Appeal by the Government.— The Government may file a notice of appeal in the district court for review of an otherwise final sentence if the sentence—

(1) was imposed in violation of law;

(2) was imposed as a result of an incorrect application of the sentencing guidelines;

(3) is less than the sentence specified in the applicable guideline range to the extent that the sentence includes a lesser fine or term of imprisonment, probation, or supervised release than the minimum established in the guideline range, or includes a less limiting condition of probation or supervised release under section 3563 (b)(6) or (b)(11) [1] than the minimum established in the guideline range; or

(4) was imposed for an offense for which there is no sentencing guideline and is plainly unreasonable.

If, as stated by some of the other posters here, there is no specific minimum sentence in this case, the government could try to appeal this horrible miscarriage of justice under subsection (4) as being "plainly unreasonable."

[bert]

......her lawyer told the judge that any prison sentence for Stewart would be a death sentence ......

So we get a twofur.

I'll bet she gets rich from the clients sher lines up from the inside. I wonder if her lawyer will insist on getting a cut?

[processing please hold]

What a travesty. Can't say I'm surprised though.

[eleni121]

Only 28 months for her traitorous deeds? One can only hope it's the longest 28 months in the history of prison time.

[Brandie]

Stewart should have been put to death for what she did.

America will pay for what these leftist's do. I hate Democrats they are as bad as the terrorists.

[LibWhacker]

28 months for treason. In a nutshell, that's what's wrong with this country: Traitors roaming free everywhere.

[piasa]

MAY 2003 : (CUNY LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS ATTEMPT TO AWARD ATTORNEY LYNNE STEWART THE SCHOOL'S 'PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYER OF THE YEAR' AWARD AT THEIR GRADUATION CEREMONIES- CUNY'S CRIMINAL LAW SOCIETY HONORED HER INSTEAD AT A PRIVATE CEREMONY) Stewart has absolutely no remorse for what she did, and plays the martyr’s role to perfection: “…don't ask me what I was doing! Ask what the government was doing listening in!” she told WW3 Report. “…They suckered me…I really see it all as part of the right-wing parade orchestrated by Bush [* My note: at the time she was taped, Clinton was president, not Bush] and Ashcroft [* My note: at the time she was taped, Janet Reno was the Attorney General, not Ashcroft] , which really masks their economic goals, to exploit the Third World and divert Americans' attention from the fact that our economy seems to be tanking right now. If I am the poster-child now for the anti-Ashcroft forces, I'm happy to be that.”
These kinds of sentiments only encouraged leftist law students at the City University of New York to attempt to present her with the school’s Public Interest Lawyer of the Year award at graduation ceremonies last month. A group of students gave administrators a petition containing 73 names—more than half of the graduating class—in an effort to reward Stewart for her betrayal of her country and its citizens. This turned out to be an award too far, however. After the award was leaked to the press, CUNY law school dean Kristin Booth Glen informed students via e-mail that Stewart would not be honored because that “could lead to consequences that could be damaging.”
This brought out the martyrs brigade again.  Kathryn Hudson, the CUNY law student who spearheaded the effort to fete Stewart, fumed, “If you can’t have free speech at a law school, where can you have it?” Said graduate student, Kavita Pawria, “There is an irrational fear being used to suppress civil liberties.”
Stewart herself got into the act, saying, “The students seem to carry on a long tradition of reminding institutions of their responsibilities. They are willing to take the risk, but Dean Glen apparently is not.”
Stewart ended up feeling quite feted, however, as CUNY’s Criminal Law Society honored her at a private ceremony prior to graduation. Considering CUNY law students’ abysmal 50 percent passage rate on the bar exam, engineering this small victory was quite resourceful.
-- " Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ," By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003

[piasa]

NOVEMBER 2002 : (ATTORNEY LYNNE STEWART VOCALIZES HER APPROVAL OF MAO, STALIN, VIETNAMESE LEADERS & FIDEL CASTRO'S IMPRISONMENT OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS; VOICES SUPPORT FOR SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN - See NY TUNNEL PLOTS, HOLLAND TUNNEL, LINCOLN TUNNEL) “I don’t have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous,” she told Monthly Review’s Susie Day in a November 2002 interview. “Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people’s revolution.”
Describing the Islamic fanatics who have declared war on America, Stewart told Susie Day, “They are basically forces of national liberation.…”
About the “blind sheik,” her client, who helped to mastermind the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, she says, “Now, certainly somebody like Sheikh Omar, who was a world figure, someone who was listened to by the entire Muslim population for being a very learned scholar, deserved to have a platform, deserved not to be entombed in the middle of America and not able to speak.” The interview appears on the the WW3 Report website. “They said the Sheikh was responsible for, I dunno, everything except flat feet. They made it sound like a worldwide conspiracy… He's a blind, elderly, sick man. He may be a spiritual head, he may be intellectually involved in [Islamic Group’s] struggle [in Egypt]. But he's certainly not a combatant in any sense whatsoever. -- " Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ," By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003

[floriduh voter]

And, c-span is covering an ACLU Convention this week. What a coincidence. They will be rejoicing.

[goldstategop]

Treason? I've have her executed for it. We don't take the War On Terror seriously when a traitor is given such a ridiculously light sentence. I remember the feds put Jonathan Pollard in prison for life for passing on secrets to Israel. I've always thought it was too harsh. Here we have an anti-American radical who helped Al Qaeda terrorists kill Americans and she gets a couple of months in prison? This is American justice?? Excuse me while I gag!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[clintonh8r]

I'm guessing the judge was appointed by The Peanut or Boner Bill....

[Paine's Ghost]

There is more to the story...

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.

[EGPWS]

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.

Good Gawd, sometimes the WOT appears synonymous with trying to paint a battleship.

[xcamel]

Should have been publically hung.

[BlessedBeGod]

You've got to be kidding me!

She must be laughing her (literally) fat you-know-what off.

[Revolting cat!]

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?

[World_Events]

She should have fried or faced life at best.

[tomnbeverly]

Liberals applauding decision and saying that it is actually too harsh a sentence.... Is there any doubt the U.S. is going to lose this war....