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Home Front: WoT
Government seeks tough sentence against Lynn Stewart
2010-07-15
A judge was poised to decide whether the government and some fellow judges were right when they said a 70-year-old former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case received too much leniency when she was sentenced to just over two years in prison.

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl was to resentence attorney Lynne Stewart on Thursday after considering the comments of appeals court judges who said he should review the role of terrorism in her case and consider if she lied when she testified at her trial.

Stewart, facing up to 30 years in prison, was sentenced to two years and four months after her conviction on charges that she let blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with a man who relayed messages to senior members of an Egyptian-based terrorist organization.

Posted by:tipper

#12  I'd chime in but I know someone better at cussing than I: Mel Gibson


Mel Gibson insane soundboard:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/soundboards/play/81036464/
Posted by: Cloud Banks   2010-07-15 22:25  

#11  stewart is an insipid warthog sow, kenyan komrad krewmember & bill&bernardineayers regulation POS.
Posted by: Asymmetrical Triangulation   2010-07-15 22:07  

#10  "here's a quarter. Go down to the docks and buy a rat to gnaw that thing off your face"
Posted by: Frank G   2010-07-15 18:47  

#9  Absolute minimum sentence should have been the electric chair...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2010-07-15 18:33  

#8  Please someone mail her some facial waxing strips in prison. Its never to late to learn how to do something of value, unlike her valueless lawyering.
Posted by: Cloud Banks   2010-07-15 17:46  

#7  NEW YORK — A judge had resentenced a 70-year-old civil rights lawyer to 10 years in prison for letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers.

Federal Judge John Koeltl sentenced Lynne Stewart in Manhattan after she pleaded with him to reimpose the two-year, four-month sentence he had originally given her in 2006. She said she has been diminished since her November imprisonment.

An appeals court had ordered a new sentencing, saying the judge needed to consider whether she committed perjury. Koeltl says she did and he says she lacked remorse after her first sentencing.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to impose a sentence of at least 15 years.

I love it when they beg...
Posted by: tu3031   2010-07-15 17:11  

#6  Just came down. 10 years.
Posted by: tu3031   2010-07-15 17:08  

#5  Mrs Stewart should root for Obama's opponent in 2012.

If O should lose she'll be out of jail Jan 20 2013, the resentencing won't matter.
Posted by: Clanter Sproing5873   2010-07-15 17:02  

#4  Here's one guy that's pulling for ya, Lynne baby...
Posted by: tu3031   2010-07-15 16:43  

#3  Checked it out. She's been in since November according to the Times.
Let's hope she stays there. For a long time.
Posted by: tu3031   2010-07-15 16:01  

#2  Jezzus, why isn't this bitch in jail yet?
Posted by: tu3031   2010-07-15 15:50  

#1  Egads. Stick her in jail. The only value she has to society is a deterrent to others who would have been criminals had it not been for the possibility of being her bunkmate.
Posted by: gorb   2010-07-15 15:39  

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