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<h1><b>Lynne Stewart jury still
deliberating</b></h1><font size=3><a href="http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-lynn0113,0,2535348.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan" eudora="autourl">http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-lynn0113,0,2535348.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan<br>
</a></font><font face="verdana" size=2 color="#757575">BY PATRICIA
HURTADO<br>
STAFF WRITER<br><br>
January 12, 2005, 7:47 PM EST<br><br>
</font><font size=3>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.<br><br>
The panel, which is anonymous and partially sequestered, concluded
deliberations at 4 p.m. Deliberations are to continue Thursday.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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Abdel-Rahman, the Islamic Group's spiritual leader, had withdrawn his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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