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Great timing for Lynne Stewart's sentencing appeal.
The radical attorney's legal team argued in court Wednesday that the 10-year sentence she received for smuggling messages to supporters of her imprisoned former client, blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, violated her right to free speech.
That's nonsense on stilts, of course; she's right where she belongs.
But the appeal shines a bright light on a not-totally-unrelated current concern — the barrage of criticism coming from New Jersey public officials over NYPD surveillance of Muslim individuals and organizations in the state in 2007.