NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. prosecutors in New York have begun their summation in the trial of lawyer Lynne Stewart, accused of aiding Muslim terrorists, the New York Times said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Dember continued his summation Thursday, a day after telling the jury Stewart had been an eager conspirator in a plot to restart a suspended campaign of attacks by Muslim fundamentalists against the government of Egypt.
He also claimed she had failed in her basic obligations as a lawyer, joining an imprisoned terrorist client in breaking the law out of arrogance because she "thought she was above it -- it didn't apply to her."
He said Stewart consciously carried concealed messages from a known terrorist to an imprisoned sheik and relayed the sheik's response favoring violence to that terrorist and to the sheik's militant followers in Egypt.
Stewart's defense was expected to begin its summation to the jury Thursday.
