From the AP:

Prosecutors seeking a 30-year prison term for a lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists have called her behavior “flagrant abuse of her profession” ahead of next month’s sentencing hearing. Lynne Stewart was convicted in February 2005 of providing material support to terrorists by releasing a statement by her client, Sheik Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, who was imprisoned after being convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up New York City landmarks. Stewart’s “egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group, deserves to be severely punished,” prosecutors wrote in a document submitted Thursday to a judge. Her lawyers have argued that Stewart should receive no prison time, arguing that a harsh sentence would frighten other lawyers from representing notorious clients and that Stewart’s three decades of distinguished work for indigent clients should speak louder than a single serious mistake. The prosecutors see it differently. “Stewart did not walk a fine line of zealous advocacy and accidentally fall over it; she marched across it and into a criminal conspiracy,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Dember wrote. “The government obviously did not prosecute Stewart because she is a zealous advocate, but rather for blatantly and repeatedly violating the law.”

Update: Maybe Andy McCarthy can explain this one, from a reader:

Did I read that correctly? Lynne Stewart is convicted in February 2005, and only now is being sentenced. If Stewart was a car jacker, and not a lawyer, would the government give her 19 months between conviction and sentencing?