Lynne Stewart has been re-sentenced in her conviction for aiding Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (serving multiple life sentences for plotting attacks on New York landmarks, among other things) communicate with his radical followers from prison, and the judge increased her term from two years and four months to 10 years.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:42:57pm |
As I said in the last thread, fuck her. I hope she rots.
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jamesfirecat Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:43:17pm |
Huh... resentencing....
How does that typically work since you don't hear about it much... (unless you count someone getting time off for good behavior...)
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albusteve Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:43:35pm |
justice served...too bad she didn't cop 40 years
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brookly red Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:45:30pm |
/2 judges on lunch break...
1st judge: I don't know what would you give a 70 year old hooker?
2nd judge: 2 bucks tops.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:45:33pm |
In a couple of days they come and
Take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical sheikh
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek.
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Racer X Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:51:39pm |
I remember her story well. Fuck her. The blind sheik was an asshole. She should have been given a harsher sentence. Life in prison would be OK with me.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jul 15, 2010 3:56:26pm |
re: #7 Racer X
You're just celebrating her suffering because you don't like her.
/
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Cato the Elder Thu, Jul 15, 2010 4:08:25pm |
re: #7 Racer X
I remember her story well. Fuck her. The blind sheik was an asshole. She should have been given a harsher sentence. Life in prison would be OK with me.
Given that she's dying of cancer, that's what it amounts to.
This is me not weeping.
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Racer X Thu, Jul 15, 2010 4:10:49pm |
re: #10 Cato the Elder
Given that she's dying of cancer, that's what it amounts to.
This is me not weeping.
Karma is a bitch.
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MJ Thu, Jul 15, 2010 4:19:29pm |
She got what she deserved.
I wonder how long it will take for the NYT to come to her defense.
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Fozzie Bear Thu, Jul 15, 2010 4:42:28pm |
This bitch gives defense attorneys everywhere a bad name.
Rot. In. Hell.
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SixDegrees Thu, Jul 15, 2010 5:13:41pm |
Still not long enough by half, but far better than the slap on the wrist she received originally.
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alexknyc Thu, Jul 15, 2010 5:19:11pm |
How does re-sentencing to a longer term not violate Constitutional protections like double jeopardy?
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rieux Thu, Jul 15, 2010 5:59:41pm |
re: #14 Fozzie Bear
This bitch gives defense attorneys everywhere a bad name.
Rot. In. Hell.
I was gonna say the same thing, but you beat me to the punch (to quote Mary Wells).
How does re-sentencing to a longer term not violate Constitutional protections like double jeopardy?
Because she was in jeopardy of conviction only once. The question of the appropriate sentence is separate, and subject to reconsideration if an appeals court so orders, as it did here.
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TedStriker Thu, Jul 15, 2010 5:59:55pm |
Lynne Stewart can just rot in prison for rest of her pitiful natural life...and then rot in Hell for eternity for the assistance she gave to the Blind Sheikh extralegally.
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mardukhai Thu, Jul 15, 2010 6:06:40pm |
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Jul 15, 2010 6:18:25pm |
This one here, IMHO, is a touch of Judas Proof...iirc, as she w's entering court for her original sentencing, she went in posing as a frail, sickly old lady. After the unlawfully short sentence was pronounced, she proclaimed she could do said unlawfully short sentence, "standing on her head." She showed absolute contempt for the legal system she was sworn to uphold.
Now she may imbibe her just dessert.
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swamprat Thu, Jul 15, 2010 10:08:16pm |
re: #16 alexknyc
"How does re-sentencing to a longer term not violate Constitutional protections like double jeopardy?"
Thank you for pointing that out, and for having the courage to do so. It certainly looks like the constitution took one on the chin in this case. This seems to be a judge trying to placate a rowdy mob, by backpedaling on an unpopular ruling. Just as I strongly object to prisoners-of-war bring tried in civilian courts, as if they were thieves and murderers, I also strongly object to judges pandering to popular opinion (or outside pressure). You don't try to determine what popular opinion is, before you sentence someone. The original sentence was a travesty. And the "fix" is an offense to the principles of the constitution. If they want to try her for perjury, that is one thing, but to "re-sentence" her seems to be a defacto 2nd trial with no jury.
The rule of law should not be determined by a Zogby poll.
No matter how much I agree with the outcome.
I am no scholar here, and I understand that I could be fundamentally mistaken, or have overlooked some simple aspect of this.....
...but it seems to reek...
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Jul 15, 2010 11:35:50pm |
re: #21 swamprat
It certainly looks like the constitution took one on the chin in this case.
No, it doesn't. As Lizard Rieux has noted:
re: #17 rieux
Because she was in jeopardy of conviction only once. The question of the appropriate sentence is separate, and subject to reconsideration if an appeals court so orders, as it did here.
A good example of this clear logic presented by Rieux would be appeals by those on death row. Those appeals are not to get the convicted tried again for the same crime (Double Jeopardy), but to appeal the sentence.
There was nothing untoward, illegal nor unconstitutional in this re-sentencing.
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SixDegrees Fri, Jul 16, 2010 12:42:45am |
re: #22 Slumbering Behemoth
A good example of this clear logic presented by Rieux would be appeals by those on death row. Those appeals are not to get the convicted tried again for the same crime (Double Jeopardy), but to appeal the sentence.
There was nothing untoward, illegal nor unconstitutional in this re-sentencing.
Also, the judge's original sentence overlooked her perjury conviction, and the Appeals Court took a dim view of this; the sentence is supposed to be based on what the defendant was convicted of, no more and no less. It was the main legal reason for their decision to send the case back for resentencing in the first place.
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swamprat Fri, Jul 16, 2010 6:43:29am |
re: #22 Slumbering Behemoth
re: #23 SixDegrees
"Also, the judge's original sentence overlooked her perjury conviction, and the Appeals Court took a dim view of this; the sentence is supposed to be based on what the defendant was convicted of, no more and no less. It was the main legal reason for their decision to send the case back for resentencing in the first place."
Thanks, both of you. I had missed that this was the result of an appeal.
This is better than the judge taking a "mulligan".
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