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Legalizing Oppression: Lynne Stewart Interview

February 13, 2014 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com , ,
"The lynching and disbarring of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, who because she has terminal cancer was recently released from prison after serving four years of a 10-year sentence, is a window into the collapse of the American legal system. Stewart—who has stood up to state power for more than three decades in order to give a voice to those whom authorities seek to crush, who has spent her life defending the poor and the marginalized, who wept in court when one of her clients was barred from presenting a credible defense—is everything a lawyer should be in an open society. But we no longer live in an open society. The persecution of Stewart is the persecution of us all."

Lynne Stewart Birthday And Rally Tomorrow In NYC

October 7, 2013 Staff, www.lynnestewart.org ,
Lynne Stewart Birthday And Rally Tomorrow In NYC: Tuesday., October 8 @ 7pm Theater 80 on St Marks (in Manhattan) 80 St. Marks Pl.near 1st Ave (not the church!) Doors open @ 6 PM Donation $10 No one turned away! Renowned defense attorney Lynne Stewart, unjustly charged for the "crime" of providing her client with a fearless defense, is dying of cancer in a Texas prison. Join us to send a message of spiritual healing to Lynne and to demand that the Federal Bureau of Prisons grant her Compassionate Release now. What's the best birthday gift you can give to Lynne? Three ways you can take action on her birthday.

Sign This New Petition to Help Free Lynne Stewart

September 22, 2013 LynStewart.org, www.lynstewart.org
An outpouring of support is required once again to free revered attorney Lynne Stewart. She has submitted a new application for compassionate release and received word on September 6, 2013 that FMC Carswell Warden Jody R. Upton has sanctioned and forwarded her papers to the Bureau of Prisons headquarters in Washington, D.C. With every pretext now removed, we summon Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. to act appropriately and expeditiously: Review Lynne Stewart’s new application, again sanctioned and forwarded by Warden Upton. Instruct the federal attorney accordingly to file the requisite motion with a Federal Bureau of Prison recommendation for Lynne Stewart's compassionate release.

Defense Attorney Lynn Stewart, Dying From Cancer, Denied Release from Prison

August 10, 2013 Benjamin Weiser, www.nytimes.com
A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Friday to order the release of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas. The judge, John G. Koeltl of United States District Court, said he could not order such a release under a federal Bureau of Prisons program for terminally ill inmates without the bureau’s first making a motion seeking such action. But the judge suggested that he would look favorably upon such a request if it were presented by the bureau. “The court would give prompt and sympathetic consideration to any motion for compassionate release filed by the B.O.P, but it is for the B.O.P. to make that motion in the first instance,” he wrote.

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