We Find the Defendant Guilty As Charged

Lynne Stewart was found guilty of smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients, Sheik Rahman, to his terrorist minions.

The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene. The jury was in its 13th day of deliberations.

Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of giving material support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.

The most serious counts on which she was convicted were conspiracy and providing and concealing material support of terrorism.

This is a good day. Stewart had admitted to passing information, but argued that it was in the furtherance of providing a zealous defense to her clients. The problem for her is that she was passing information to terrorists, which is always a big no-no, regardless of the circumstance. A co-defendant, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, was found guilty of conspiracy for plotting to kill and kidnap persons in a foreign country by publishing an edict urging the killing of Jews and their supporters. A third defendant, Arabic interpreter Mohamed Yousry, was convicted of providing material support to terrorists. Sattar could face life in prison and Yousry up to 20 years.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.