Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorists; Left-Wing Activist Is Guilty of Taking Messages From Jailed Client to His Terrorist Followers

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 11, 2005

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NEW YORK (AP) - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients - a radical Egyptian sheik - to his terrorist disciples on the outside.

The jury deliberated 13 days over the past month before convicting Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene.

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Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorists; Left-Wing Activist Is Guilty of Taking Messages From Jailed Client to His Terrorist Followers

Stewart slumped in her chair as the verdict was read, shaking her head and later wiping tears from her eyes. Her suppo...

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