Sheik's lawyer gets 28 months in prison on terrorism charges

The New York Times reports:

Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer who was charged as a terrorist for helping a client in prison on terrorism charges to communicate with his followers, was sentenced today to 28 months in federal prison, far less than the 30 years the government had sought.

Prosecutors had argued that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted in plots to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt’s president. Ms. Stewart represented him at his 1995 trial.

Link. A statement on the website of the self-described "radical human rights attorney" compares her case to to historic legal cases of "Haymarket [and] Sacco/Vanzetti," and states that the 67-year old woman is "fighting breast cancer and has suffered the worst punishment —- she is no longer able to legally represent people in Court." Link. Here's the Wikipedia entry on Omar Abdel Rahman.