Lynne Stewart May Get Early Release Due to Cancer
New York civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart has the backing of medical authorities at BOP Federal Medical Center Carswell to be released from her 10 year terrorism-related sentence due to advanced cancer. Her request will now go to the BOP and federal court, hopefully for approval.
You can read her press release here. Stewart has been battling cancer since 2006.
Stewart's conviction stretched the definition of material support to a terrorist organization to new limits. Here's a transcript of an interview she and her trial lawyer Michael Tigar gave after the jury found her guilty.
Lynne's website is here. You can sign the petition to free her here. [More...]
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