Lynne Stewart

Lynne Stewart ( born October 8, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American lawyer and civil rights activist.

Career

Stewart received her Juris Doctor from Rutgers University. She represented during her law career mainly clients who were accused of political offenses and were in opposition to society, such as members of the Weathermen and the Black Panther Party. She works together in some cases with other prominent American civil rights lawyers like William Kunstler and Ramsey Clark.

The case of Umar Abd al-Rahman

Stewart took from 1994 to the blind cleric Umar Abd al- Rahman, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995 for seditious conspiracy ( seditious conspiracy ) and terrorism. Because the secrecy of lawyers was repealed in terror processes by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, could be intercepted by intelligence side, the communication between lawyer and client. Through the USA PATRIOT Act, it was ar -Rahman as prohibited Condemned terrorists to communicate with the out world. Stewart made ​​accordingly punishable when they contact with the outside world, produced on behalf of their client and sent a press release to the news agency Reuters. Stewart was therefore immediately revoked the license to practice law and issued prohibition, in 2009 it was first sentenced to 28 months' imprisonment. The prosecutor then went in appeal and reached in July 2010, a new penalty in the amount of ten years in prison. She sat a part of the punishment in the Federal Medical Center, Carswell from Fort Worth. On 31 December 2013, it was released as a surprise. The abzusitzende still remaining sentence was adopted her. Was justified the dismissal with the severity of the cancer.

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