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In the guise of legal counsel, she carried messages to his followers that encouraged them to kill more innocent people. But really, what did she do that was so wrong?

/sarcasm off

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. criminal defense lawyer could have blocked an imprisoned Islamic cleric from stirring his followers to renew terror attacks in Egypt, but instead she chose to be a messenger in the plot, a federal prosecutor said on Monday.

“She had all the power in the world to stop it,” argued the prosecutor in closing arguments in the closely watched case against Lynne Stewart, a liberal New York lawyer known for representing the poor and unpopular.