Terror Trial Lawyer
FILE - This Oct. 16, 2006 file photo shows Lynne Stewart speaking to the media and her supporters outside Manhattan federal court following her sente...
FILE - This Oct. 16, 2006 file photo shows Lynne Stewart speaking to the media and her supporters outside Manhattan federal court following her sentencing in New York. A judge was poised to decide whether the government and some fellow judges were right when they said the 70-year-old former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case received too much leniency when she was sentenced to just over two years in prison. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)
Terror Trial Lawyer
Supporters of activist attorney Lynne Stewart gather near Federal Court Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. Stewart, facing up to 30 years in priso...
Supporters of activist attorney Lynne Stewart gather near Federal Court Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. Stewart, facing up to 30 years in prison, was sentenced to two years and four months after her conviction on charges that she let blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with a man who relayed messages to senior members of an Egyptian-based terrorist organization. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl may resentence Stewart after considering the comments of appeals court judges who said he should review the role of terrorism in her case and consider if she lied when she testified at her trial. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Terror Trial Lawyer
Supporters of activist attorney Lynne Stewart gather near Federal Court Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. Stewart, facing up to 30 years in priso...
Supporters of activist attorney Lynne Stewart gather near Federal Court Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. Stewart, facing up to 30 years in prison, was sentenced to two years and four months after her conviction on charges that she let blind Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman communicate with a man who relayed messages to senior members of an Egyptian-based terrorist organization. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl may resentence Stewart after considering the comments of appeals court judges who said he should review the role of terrorism in her case and consider if she lied when she testified at her trial. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
A judge has resentenced a 70-year-old civil rights lawyer to 10 years in prison for letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers.
Federal Judge John Koeltl sentenced Lynne Stewart in Manhattan after she pleaded with him to reimpose the two-year, four-month sentence he had originally given her in 2006. She said she has been diminished since her November imprisonment.
An appeals court had ordered a new sentencing, saying the judge needed to consider whether Stewart committed perjury. Koeltl says she did and he says Stewart lacked remorse after her first sentencing.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to impose a sentence of at least 15 years.
