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NEW YORK (AP) - Freedom of speech offers no protection for a lawyer convicted of providing material support to terrorists for publicly releasing messages from a notorious jailed sheik, a judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl rejected all of attorney Lynne Stewart's arguments that the February verdict should be tossed out.
Stewart, 65, had argued that her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was engaging in protected speech when he expressed his opinion about a cease fire by Islamic militants in Egypt that Stewart passed along in a 2000 press release.
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