Lynne Stewart, fighting cancer, still hopes for a revolution
A once-prominent New York civil rights lawyer convicted of helping a terrorist client communicate with his followers is still battling the cancer that earned her compassionate release from prison over two years ago — and she is still as radical as ever, even expressing support for the killers of police officers.
Lynne Stewart, a 76-year-old great-grandmother, said in an interview with the Associated Press at her Brooklyn home that she is increasingly drained of energy by a disease that was projected to kill her at least six months ago.
“I still have serious, serious cancer,” a slow-moving Stewart said, accompanied by her equally outspoken husband, Ralph Poynter. “I have good days and bad days. I know I’m sick. I’m not what I was once.”