Lynne Stewart wasn’t simply representing an accused terrorist. That’s entirely legal. No, she was helping said accused terrorist communicate messages to his terrorist followers despite the court specifically banning anyone from doing so. So she was helping further acts of terrorism.

Stewart was originally sentenced to an outrageously-short two years, four months in prison. But an appeals court found that sentence to be far too lenient, especially considering that she herself downplayed the time as something she could do “on my head”. So she had to be re-sentenced. And today she was.

It’s ten years in prison for the terrorist lawyer, who sobbed in her prison uniform when her punishment was announced.

Koeltl found that Stewart “willfully testified falsely at the trial” on numerous points, including in telling jurors she did not make Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman available to his followers and did not violate government rules meant to silence the sheik because lawyers worked in a “bubble” in which the government understood the rules were relaxed.

“The purpose of the testimony was to mislead the jury on material matters,” he said.

He also found she had violated a position of public trust, a finding he had not made at the original sentencing.

She was convicted of providing material support to a terrorist organization for letting Abdel-Rahman communicate with a man who relayed messages to senior members of an Egyptian-based terrorist organization.

Abdel-Rahman was tried in 1995, with Stewart representing him, for plotting terrorist attacks against New York City, as well as the assassination of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He is now serving a life sentence.

For her part, Stewart says life in prison is harder than she could possibly have imagined. Tough. That’s what happens when you actively help carry messages of terrorism to radical supporters of an accused terrorist. She’ll have another 9 years, two months to fully understand that.