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  • Prosecutor: Lawyer helped sheik break law (Lynne Stewart)

    12/29/2004 10:13:51 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 1,341+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 12/29/04 | Larry Nuemeister - AP
    NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer and two co-defendants helped an imprisoned Egyptian sheik commit a sort of "jailbreak" by allowing him to get around prison rules and feed messages to terrorists overseas, a prosecutor told a federal jury Wednesday. In his closing argument, assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Dember asked the jury to convict the three of a conspiracy to overcome the government's effort to silence the still "powerful and influential" prisoner, Omar Abdel-Rahman. Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants, Ahmed Abdel Sattar and Mohamed Yousry, testified they obeyed the law in the work they did for Abdel-Rahman....