Dying Brooklyn lawyer, imprisoned for terrorist involvement, is finally released
Manhattan Federal Judge John Koeltl has reversed his initial order and has granted a well-known, controversial Brooklyn lawyer’s request to be released from prison on account of a terminal breast cancer diagnosis.
Citing “extraordinary and compelling reasons” as the justification for reducing the prison sentence of Lynne Stewart, Koeltl ordered Stewart’s release to a Texas hospital.
Stewart, 74, has been imprisoned since 2009, serving a 10-year prison term after she was convicted of helping a blind Egyptian sheik to communicate with his associates while he was serving life in a plot to blow up five New York City landmarks and assassinate then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.