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THE SENTENCING OF LYNNE STEWART

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

THE SENTENCING OF LYNNE STEWART By Michael Steven Smith ?At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.? Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do. I was in the courtroom with my wife Debby the afternoon of July l9th for her re-sentencing. The Judge John Koetl buried her alive. We should have seen it coming when he told her to take all the time she needed at the start when she spoke before the sentence was read. It didn?t matter what she said. He had already written his decision, which he read out loud for to a courtroom packed with supporters. It was well crafted. Bullet proof on appeal. He is smart and cautious. After about an hour into his pronouncement he came to the buried alive part...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).