Lynne Stewart trial update, from AP, with thanks to None:
NEW YORK -- 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.
The blind sheik, who entered the United States in 1990, is serving a life prison sentence for his 1995 conviction for inspiring plots to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and blow up New York City landmarks.
Dember told jurors the three defendants in effect "broke Abdel-Rahman out of jail, made him available to the worst kind of criminal we find in this world -- terrorists."
This stupid Lawyer deserves a lengthy time in jail - fifty years ago she would have been shot as a traitor! Wonder if she is a convert to Islam , there seems no end of dotty, middleaged broads falling for the' allure 'of Islam where of course, THEY WOULD HAVE NO RIGHTS CIVIL OR OTHERWISE!!
Enjoy the spicy pork chops, Lynne!
I guess this is the legalistic version of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'?
But this court case should be as hyped as the Scott Peterson trial-
-but won't be for one crucial 'decadent Western' reason: the woman lawyer in this critical crime does not look enough like like Fawn Hall (if that name rings a bell) for the info-tainment networks.
But, the blind imam clearly knew that he had a suck- ...er, I mean -sympathizer, and used her like a Pakistani terrorist uses a stray dog to carry an explosive.
May she meet a fitting fate.
Inshallah?
Lynne Stewart will surely use her age, sex, and knowledge of legal loopholes to the hilt. I pray that judge and jurors won't buy her line.
It's also a disgrace that Sheikh Abdurrahman and Yousef Ramzi aren't dead by lethal injection yet.
I bet she gets off, with all the leftist conspiracy theory scum in NYC. the heck with lethatl injection, those animals should be burned slowly!