[L.N. Smithee]

One secondary aspect of this episode was, however, based on a true case. At one point, the jailed white supremacist, who has been forbidden from all contact with the outside world, except for his defense attorney (Tovah Feldshuh), uses her as an unwitting conduit to pass along the address of someone he has targeted for murder to an associate, who carries out the killing. However, Dick Wolf's creative team made a slight adjustment in the story. The subplot was based not on a white supremacist, but on the case of radical attorney, Lynne Stewart. Stewart has been arrested and charged with deliberately passing along instructions from one of her clients, Islamic terrorist Sheik Abdul Rahman, who was convicted of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, to his confederates. Stewart was taped laughing about what she was doing.

There's another inaccuracy there, too. Anyone who knows anything about Lynne Stewart knows that Tovah Feldshuh is way too gorgeous to play a character based on the rotund and unfashionable Stewart.

Tovah Feldshuh

Lynne Stewart

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Thanks for the pics, L.N. Tovah's in her fifties, but she's still a babe! Lynne is, well, Lynne.