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DN! Attorney Lynne Stewart (1) Conviction and Ordering and Prison

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EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Responds to Court Ruling Upholding Conviction and Ordering Her to Prison

Civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been ordered to prison to begin serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence after a federal appeals court upheld her conviction on Tuesday. Lynne Stewart was found guilty in 2005 of distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the Blind Sheikh, who is serving a life sentence on terror-related charges. The panel also described Stewarts twenty-eight-month sentence as strikingly low and sent the case back to the trial judge to determine whether she deserved a longer prison term. In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, Lynne Stewart joins us from New York.

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  • I wonder how it would go if the situation were reversed with Al Qaeda doing the judging and sentencing ....

  • rjugel, won't it be awesome if folks like you make us like Al Quida?

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  • Hard to get too enthralled with folks whose idea of justice is publicly lopping people's heads off - but to each his own, I reckon.

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