[Ppnews] Lynne Stewart re-sentenced to 10 years

[Political Prisoner News]

NY lawyer gets 10-year term

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqFFRaxZKfmO7QApHCKcMjydegTgD9GVNCS01

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER (AP) – 9 minutes ago

NEW YORK ­ A judge had resentenced a 70-year-old 
civil rights lawyer to 10 years in prison for 
letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers.

Federal Judge John Koeltl sentenced Lynne Stewart 
in Manhattan after she pleaded with him to 
reimpose the two-year, four-month sentence he had 
originally given her in 2006. She said she has 
been diminished since her November imprisonment.

An appeals court had ordered a new sentencing, 
saying the judge needed to consider whether she 
committed perjury. Koeltl says she did and he 
says she lacked remorse after her first sentencing.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to impose a sentence of at least 15 years.




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