(Newsday) Patricia Hurtado - Activist lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted on all counts Thursday and faces up to 30 years in prison for using prison visits to help her client, radical Muslim cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, pass messages to and from his terrorist followers in the Islamic Group. Key to the case were hundreds of secretly recorded telephone conversations on which Ahmed Sattar, who served as the sheik's paralegal, could be heard discussing how to circumvent administrative measures and gain the sheik's support to end a cease-fire and return to violence.
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