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Lynne Stewart gets 10-year federal prison sentence the second time around

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP article, Lynne Stewart "was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison in a terrorism case by a judge who boosted her original sentence by nearly eight years after concluding she lied to a jury and lacked remorse." Here are more details: The sentence, nearly four times longer than the two-year, four-month sentence she originally received in 2006, left Stewart sobbing in her prison uniform after Koeltl described his reasons for increasing the prison time significantly. An appeals court had ordered a new sentencing, saying the terrorism component of the case needed to be considered, along with whether she committed perjury at her trial. The court said it had "serious doubts" whether her original sentence was reasonable...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 15, 2010 (boomark / email).