33 Facts About Lynne Stewart

Lynne Irene Stewart was an American defense attorney who was known for representing controversial, famous defendants.

Lynne Stewart herself was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison.

Lynne Stewart was re-sentenced on July 15,2010, to 10 years in prison in light of her perjury at trial.

Lynne Stewart served her sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.

Lynne Stewart was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Irene and John Feltham.

Lynne Stewart's mother was of German and Swedish descent, while her father had English and Irish ancestry.

Lynne Stewart grew up in Bellerose, Queens and graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in 1957.

Lynne Stewart attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan but left without a degree.

Lynne Stewart was admitted to practice law in New York in 1977.

Lynne Stewart believed that violence is at times needed to correct the injustices of capitalism.

Lynne Stewart sometimes was a featured speaker on university campuses.

Lynne Stewart was admitted to the New York State Bar on January 31,1977.

Lynne Stewart was a self-described "movement lawyer" who took a wider interest in promoting the general political interests of those she represented, rather than only dealing with the specific charges against them.

Lynne Stewart defended Weather Underground member David Gilbert, who was found guilty for his role in the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in which two police officers and a security guard were murdered.

In 1991, Lynne Stewart was subpoenaed to explain alternative fee arrangements with a gang member whom she had been defending on a drug trafficking charge.

Lynne Stewart and Kunstler secured Davis an acquittal on the more serious murder and attempted murder charges, but Davis was found guilty on a lesser felony weapon possession charge.

Lynne Stewart unsuccessfully defended former Gambino crime family underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano on ecstasy trafficking charges.

Lynne Stewart said that all her high-profile clients shared the distinction of being revolutionaries against unjust systems or were people whose cases expose those injustices.

In November 1994, former Johnson administration attorney general Ramsey Clark met with Lynne Stewart and asked her to take Rahman on as a client after Rahman dismissed his court-appointed lawyer and his other lawyers, William Kunstler and Ron Kuby, were taken off the case for conflict of interest.

Lynne Stewart had accepted the condition that, in order to be allowed to meet with Abdel Rahman in prison, she would not "use [their] meetings, correspondence, or phone calls with Abdel Rahman to pass messages between third parties and Abdel Rahman".

Lynne Stewart was accused in the indictment of passing Rahman's blessing for a resumption of terrorist operations to al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya members in Egypt after they inquired whether they should continue to honor a ceasefire agreement with the Egyptian government.

The material-support charges were dismissed in the summer of 2003, but in November 2003, Lynne Stewart was re-indicted on charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism.

Supporters of Lynne Stewart alleged that the government charged her for her speech in defending the rights of her client.

Lynne Stewart remained free on bail pending the results of her appeal.

Lynne Stewart requested that the Court exercise the sentencing discretion given to judges by the US Supreme Court ruling in US v Booker, and impose a non-custodial sentence.

Lynne Stewart stated that while over her long career of representing unpopular clients, Stewart had "performed a public service, not only to her clients, but to the nation", her conduct was "criminal" in this case.

On July 15,2010, Lynne Stewart was re-sentenced by Judge Koeltl to 10 years in prison, taking into consideration what he concluded were false statements she made under oath at her trial and other factors as directed by the appellate court.

Lynne Stewart filed a certiorari petition to the United States Supreme Court in February 2013.

On June 25,2013, Lynne Stewart announced that she had received a letter stating that Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels had denied her request for compassionate release.

In December 2013, prosecutors wrote a letter to the judge stating that Lynne Stewart had 18 months to live.

Judge Koeltl granted the motion, and on December 31,2013, Lynne Stewart was released from prison.

In September, 2016, Lynne Stewart was quoted on the assassinations of police in Dallas and in Baton Rouge.

Lynne Stewart has two daughters, Brenna Stewart, an attorney, and Zenobia Poynter, a doctor.