Dying Lawyer’s Request for Release From Prison Is Turned Down
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Published: August 9, 2013
- A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Friday to order the release of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas.
The judge, John G. Koeltl of United States District Court, said he could not order such a release under a federal Bureau of Prisons program for terminally ill inmates without the bureau’s first making a motion seeking such action. But the judge suggested that he would look favorably upon such a request if it were presented by the bureau.
“The court would give prompt and sympathetic consideration to any motion for compassionate release filed by th
e B.O.P, but it is for the B.O.P. to make that motion in the first instance,” he wrote. …
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Lynne Stewart, Human Rights Lawyer … is dying. She has stage 4 cancer. Her crime was doing her job ….. defending someone not liked by the establishment. Be compassionate … let her die at home!!!
Research this!!!
Sending all Posts Lynne´s husband.Nobody can comfort him:
Lynne has to come home – as a WOMAN, a HUMAN –
not to dy alone in prison like a worthless somewhat…(I don´t know how to say)
Most People have no idea how Humans are living and dying
in prison!
Annamaria Dr. Grabowski – blogmaker -
This is ANOTHER sad day for America!!! :-(
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