{"id":429,"date":"2002-04-10T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2002-04-10T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/evil-attorney-indicted\/"},"modified":"2002-04-10T07:28:47","modified_gmt":"2002-04-10T14:28:47","slug":"evil-attorney-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/10\/evil-attorney-indicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil attorney indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; The idictment of evil attorney Lynne Stewart for terrorist conspiracy drew the predictable response from the trial lawyers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A22762-2002Apr9.html\">Attorney Accused of Passing Terrorist Messages (washingtonpost.com)<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;As a defense lawyer now, you basically cannot talk to your clients in prison. If you have a securities fraud case . . . then you&#8217;re probably safe. If you&#8217;re in the Southern District of New York and there are people under indictment for these kind of [terrorism] cases, then you&#8217;re probably being watched,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It bodes terribly ill for our defense system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With spokesmen like this, trial lawyers need no enemies. It&#8217;s always been illegal for attorneys to join criminal conspiracies with their clients, it just wasn&#8217;t prosecuted before. You can tell how serious Ashcroft is about this case by his <a href=\"http:\/\/gbarto.com\/turkey\/archive\/2002_04_07_archive.html#75214458\">appearance<\/a> on David Letterman last night.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; The idictment of evil attorney Lynne Stewart for terrorist conspiracy drew the predictable response from the trial lawyers: Attorney Accused of Passing Terrorist Messages (washingtonpost.com) &#8212; &#8220;As a defense lawyer now, you basically cannot talk to your clients in prison. If you have a securities fraud case . . . then you&#8217;re probably safe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/10\/evil-attorney-indicted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evil attorney indicted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-6V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}