Judge Rules Terror Lawyer Must Remain in Prison
A former lawyer convicted in a terrorism case says her request for early release from a 10-year prison sentence to fight cancer has been rejected.
Lynne Stewart has said medical authorities at her Fort Worth, Texas, prison recommended her for compassionate release. The 73-year-old was sentenced on a charge of conspiracy to provide support to terrorist organizations after she helped an imprisoned Muslim sheikh, a client of hers, get word to his followers in Egypt to commit terrorism against Western targets.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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