Monday, April 11, 2005

Lynne Stewart's Sentencing Date Pushed Back To September

While her sentencing date was pushed back to September, one of the jurors who found her guilty had no problem speaking his mind about Stewart:
Juror No. 8, who resides near Ground Zero, staunchly defended the Feb. 10 guilty verdict as a civic duty.

"We were sending a message. We were intending to send a message," he said. "Do not break the law. Do not conspire with terrorists."

Juror No. 8 and his fellow panel members convicted Stewart of being a material witness to terrorism, fraud and filing a false statement while she represented imprisoned blind Egyptian terror cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

She faces 30 years in prison for her crimes. Here's hoping that she receives the maximum sentence.

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