Defense Attorney Convicted in Terror Case (washingtonpost.com)

It took over a month of deliberation, but the jury assigned to try terrorist collaborator Lynne Stewart have finally convicted her on the charges of aiding and abetting her “client” in his mission to incite violence.

Stewart has a long history of defending the worst possible scum of the world – so maybe one of them will step up to defend her at the appeal.

NEW YORK — A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside.

The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene. The jury deliberated 13 days in all.

But she also testified that she believed violence was sometimes necessary to achieve justice: “To rid ourselves of the entrenched, voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that perpetuates sexism and racism, I don’t think that can come nonviolently.”

A major part of the prosecution’s case was Stewart’s 2000 release of a statement withdrawing the sheik’s support for a cease-fire in Egypt by his militant followers. Prosecutors, though, could point to no violence that resulted from the statement.

Videotape of prison conversations between Stewart and the sheik also were played for jurors — recordings the defense denounced as an intrusion into attorney-client privilege.