A little less than two and a half years in jail, as it turns out.

The Wall Street Journal:

Yesterday in New York, Lynne Stewart, a self-styled “civil rights” attorney whose past clients include the Black Panthers and Weather Underground, was sentenced to 28 months in prison for illegally passing messages between her imprisoned client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, and his followers in Egypt’s Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, the terrorist group responsible for killing 62 mostly European and Japanese tourists in Luxor in 1997. Some of those tourists were beheaded; others were disemboweled. The Sheik was also involved in planning terror attacks in New York, for which he is serving a life sentence.

In an age when courts routinely impose five-year prison terms for drug offenders, and life sentences on former CEOs, 28 months may not seem an appropriate sentence for a terrorist accomplice, especially when the government sought 30 years. Ms. Stewart certainly had the sympathy of the judge, John Koeltl, who praised her as a champion of “the poor, the disadvantaged and the unpopular.” She herself seems to have had few misgivings about her actions: “The government’s characterization of me and what occurred is inaccurate and untrue,” she told the judge. “It takes unfair advantage of the climate of urgency and hysteria that followed 9/11.”

No wonder this country has lost its will to fight terrorism.  We can’t even put terrorist accomplices in jail for longer then we’d put someone in for more benign crimes like forgery or insurance fraud.