After the prison-yard murder of Larry Davis in upstate New York, most City papers noted his infamy and folk- or anti-hero status, but for the most part were content to portray him as a vicious thug, murderer, and all-around lowlife. Davis was shanked multiple times by another inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster county New York. Davis was serving a 25 years-to-life sentence there for murder, even after he was acquitted of the......

Brenna Stewart, the daughter of convicted so-called "terrorist lawyer" Lynne Stewart, is to undergo psychiatric testing after she was charged with providing phony doctors' notes claiming she was sick to get days off from her job as a gym teacher. Ironically, the fake notes, at least one of which she submitted to attend the sentencing of her mother, could land her in jail for up to seven years. Stewart was busted last year when an......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned auto on Christopher and New Lots Aves. in Brooklyn, a scaffold collapse on East 166th St. and Sherman Ave. in the Bronx, and a fire with evacuated animals on Greenpoint Ave. and 46th St. in Queens. If you're the head of a major corporation that wants to make a mark on the New York skyline by occupying space in a tower that comes with all the cachet......

We love stories about public school teachers and sick days: There was the guy who wanted some time off to serve a jail sentence, the principal who was actually conducting an orchestra, and, our favorite, the teacher who took sick days when performing as a wrestler for the WWE. But we would never have dreamed that Lynne Stewart, the controversial lawyer who was convicted of aiding terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman while he was in......

Last week, the FBI issued a bulletin about Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric who is considered the spiritual leader for groups of militant Muslims. Abdel-Rahman, who has been serving a prison sentence for planning to blow up various NYC landmarks, was found to have a tumor on his liver. And considering that he's been in poor health, the FBI was prompted to remind authorities that "Rahman pleaded for followers to 'extract the most violent......

Yesterday's decision by a federal judge to sentence controversial lawyer Lynne Stewart to 28 months in prison for charges in helping terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman carry out his message was met by relief from Stewart supporters and overwhelming outcry from the government (which had hoped for a 30 year sentence) and many of the local papers. The Post, Daily News and the Sun all have editorials criticizing Judge Koetl's short sentence. From the......

Well-known radical lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced today to 28 months in prison. In February 2005, she found guilty of terror charges - she had smuggled messages from terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to his followers in defiance of prison rules. Stewart had been pleading for leniency, as she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, and before the sentencing, Stewart's lawyer Elizabeth Fink said, "If you send her to prison, she's going to......

- Here's one for charter schools: Their students do better on state reading tests than other students in regular public shcools - Lynne Stewart apologizes to the judge who is sentecing her for carrying Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's messages to his followers, but blames it on being a lawyer - Testimony begins in Nicole duFresne's murder trial; her fiance, Jeffrey Sparks, said, "She was looking up. Her eyes were wide open. I knelt down......

- The Politicker reports that the D.A. Pennebaker documentary of the Ferrer campaign hasn't been happening for a while, because the crew wasn't "getting a film that was worth doing, as compared with what you just got off of every TV screen." Damn TV! - No new trial for attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of passing messages to her terrorist cleric - Al Franken, who has been on every talk show morning and late......

A juror from the trial of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who was found guilty of aiding her client, a "terrorist cleric," has told a judge she was coerced into finding Stewart guilty. Juror 39, whose identity is kept anonymous (described in the NY Times as a "slight woman with high cheekbones"), claims that her verdict "only as a result of the fear and intimidation" because she "was made to fear for her life" as other......

New York lawyer Lynne Stewart was New York Region > Lawyer Is Guilty of Aiding Terror" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/nyregion/11stewart.html">convicted of federal charges that she aided terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman in his activities yesterday. Stewart, a well-known "radical" lawyer, was accused of smuggling messages to the imprisoned Rahman's followers and lying to the authorities about the extent of her actions. The trial lasted three months, and deliberations ran two weeks. Stewart is going to appeal the verdict.......

Some stories Gothamist has been following lately [additionally, based on a totally unofficial survey of a couple newspapers, it seems about 50% - or more - of the stories are about the convention...we suppose NYC will have to get more interesting post-convention]: - The jury in the trial of the U.S. vs. Lynne Stewart finally saw videotapes of Stewart and her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Stewart is accused of aiding terrorism by being the......