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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2016, file photo, Lynne Stewart talks during an interview at her home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The outspoken New York civil rights lawyer who represented clients ranging from small-time criminals to radicals and was released early from prison three years ago because she was expected to die of cancer has died. Her husband, Ralph Poynter, said Stewart died Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in the Brooklyn home where she lived after receiving a "compassionate release" from prison in January 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2005 file photo, Lynne Stewart cries as she speaks to the press with her husband Ralph Pointer, left, outside Federal Court in New York after Stewart's compassionate release from prison. The outspoken New York civil rights lawyer who represented clients ranging from small-time criminals to radicals and was released early from prison because she was expected to die of cancer has died. Her husband, Poynter, said Stewart died Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in the Brooklyn home where she lived after receiving a "compassionate release" from prison in January 2014. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2009, file photo, Lynne Stewart speaks to supporters before entering federal court in Manhattan to surrender, in New York. Stewart, the outspoken civil rights lawyer who represented the downtrodden and was disbarred and jailed after being convicted of helping a terrorist client communicate with followers, died Tuesday March 7, 2017, in Brooklyn at age 77. She was released early from prison three years ago because she was expected to die of cancer. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2009, file photo, Lynne Stewart, center, is surrounded by supporters and reporters in New York after a federal appeals court in New York City said a judge who sentenced Stewart to just over two years in prison should consider a harsher sentence in light of her case's terrorism connection. It can be an uncomfortable life for any defense attorney representing unpopular clients, but lawyers who agree to speak on behalf of people accused of plotting to kill Americans in terrorist attacks walk difficult road. Stewart was an attorney for a blind Egyptian sheik serving life for terrorism convictions until she was arrested on terrorism charges months after 9/11 for letting him communicate with followers. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE - This Oct. 16, 2006 file photo, lawyer Lynne Stewart enters Manhattan federal court for her sentencing in New York. Attorney Jill Shellow says in court papers filed Monday, July 29, 2013, that 73-year-old Lynne Stewart will soon succumb to breast cancer. Stewart was convicted in 2005 of providing support to terrorist organizations by letting the imprisoned sheik communicate with his followers. The sheik is serving a life sentence for conspiracies to blow up New York landmarks and assassinate then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Stewart represented the sheik at his 1995 trial. She's serving 10 years in prison. She's been imprisoned since 2009. A compassionate-release request was previously denied. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
