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Lynne Stewart jury still deliberating

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-lynn0113,0,2535348.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan
BY PATRICIA HURTADO
STAFF WRITER

January 12, 2005, 7:47 PM EST

A federal jury hearing the case against activist lawyer Lynne Stewart and 
two co-defendants in Manhattan deliberated for nearly three hours Wednesday 
after receiving instructions on the law.

The panel, which is anonymous and partially sequestered, concluded 
deliberations at 4 p.m. Deliberations are to continue Thursday.

Stewart, 65, a veteran criminal defense lawyer who represented Sheik Omar 
Abdel-Rahman in 1995, has been on trial for the last seven months on 
charges that include conspiracy, providing material support to a terrorist 
organization, as well as two counts of making false statements to the 
government.

Prosecutors contend that Stewart, Ahmed Sattar, a U.S. postal worker who 
worked as a paralegal on the sheik's case, and Mohamed Yousry, who worked 
as the sheik's translator, conspired to pass messages from the imprisoned 
Abdel-Rahman to his militant followers in the Islamic Group.

The sheik was serving life for his conviction in a foiled plot to bomb New 
York landmarks and to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Stewart 
continued to represent him after his imprisonment.

The defendants are accused of passing a message in 2000 that said 
Abdel-Rahman, the Islamic Group's spiritual leader, had withdrawn his 
support for a cease-fire after United States officials restricted him from 
communicating with his followers. Stewart is also charged with defrauding 
the government by promising to abide by the restrictions.

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