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I created a brief article on Lynne Stewart after I read about her case and found that there was none on Wikipedia. I think that the initial draft is factually accurate, informative and basic. I encourage those editing the page to view the links included and add more appropriate, detailed information about Lynne Stewart and her case.
That's superior to my stub...
Original stub
..., which i place here (rather than resolving the ed-conf) just in case there are disagreements (haven't checked) between them, or copy-vio problems with this new colleague's contrib.
- Lynne Stewart is an American lawyer and Federal prisoner convicted of providing material aid to terrorists.
- She was in well known in some New York City political circles, before her conviction, for her legal defense of accused political activists.
- In the course of her legal representation of Omar Abdel-Rahman, a convicted conspirator in a plan to carry out bombings in New York City, she signed two agreements not to communicate any information from him to anyone other than court and Justice Department officials. She held a press conference where she stated that he had withdrawn his support from a truce that had been declared by Egyptian Islamists in their attacks on Egyptian-government figures.
- In her trial, the prosecution presented testimony about assassinations carried out after the press conference, and argued that her role in communicating from Abdel-Rahman through the press to the assassins was significant in carrying out those operations.
- On 2005 February 10 she was convicted. The maximum sentence that she could receive amounts to several decades of imprisonment.
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