After nearly six months of testimony, closing arguments were set to begin Wednesday in the trial of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart and her two co-defendants, all of whom were members of a legal team that represented imprisoned Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman in the 1990s.The defendants, accused of helping a convicted terrorist communicate deadly messages to overseas followers, spent several weeks on the witness stand testifying in their own defense, in a risky move. The testimony is likely to figure prominently in the closing arguments and could influence the eventual verdict in the first major terrorism trial in Manhattan since the Sept. 11 attacks.Full Story
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