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George Cadman
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews New York Human Rights attorney Lynne Stewart about her conviction, the climate of fear and intimidation in this country and what people can do about it.
Lynne Stewart will be sentenced in September and faces up to 30 years in prison. The judge has the descretion to give her no prison time, only probation, if he so chooses, so letters to the judge are encouraged.
On Febuary 10, 2005, New York civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists and defrauding the US government. Yet, Stewart never provided any financial support, weaponry or any other concrete aid for any act of terrorism. No act of terrorism is alleged to have resulted from her actions. Stewart's supposed support for terrorism instead consisted of aiding her client in 2000 by giving a press release to Reuters News Service in Cairo, Egypt, and of being present when her co-defendants allegedly aided her client in writing a series of letters.
Her trial was held in the same courtroom where the Rosenburgs were tried for conspiracy to commit espionage more than 50 years ago.
Stewart will be sentenced in September and faces up to 30 years in prison. Though the judge has the discretion to give her no prison time at all, if he chooses.
Lynne and her supporters argue that all she did was represent her client effectively as a good attorney should.
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