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Fink has also represented other prisoners and political radicals. In 1989, she and others secured acquittals for members of [[United Freedom Front|the Ohio 7]], political radicals who were charged under a federal seditious conspiracy statute.<ref>[http://fkolaw.com/?page_id=2 Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink: Attorneys]</ref> |
Fink has also represented other prisoners and political radicals. In 1989, she and others secured acquittals for members of [[United Freedom Front|the Ohio 7]], political radicals who were charged under a federal seditious conspiracy statute.<ref>[http://fkolaw.com/?page_id=2 Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink: Attorneys]</ref> |
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Along with attorneys [[Sarah Kunstler]] and Jesse Berman, Fink represented [[Osama Awadallah]], a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] college student studying in the United States, who was arrested as a [[material witness]] in the days following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] and prosecuted for alleged [[perjury]] before the [[grand jury]] investigating the terrorist attacks. Awadallah was acquitted in November 2006. |
Along with attorneys [[Sarah Kunstler]] (Kunstler's father, [[William Kunstler]], had long been a mentor of Fink) and Jesse Berman, Fink represented [[Osama Awadallah]], a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] college student studying in the United States, who was arrested as a [[material witness]] in the days following the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] and prosecuted for alleged [[perjury]] before the [[grand jury]] investigating the terrorist attacks. Awadallah was acquitted in November 2006. |
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Also in 2006, Fink represented [[Lynne Stewart]] during sentencing after Stewart's conviction for violating special communication measures involving client [[Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman]].<ref>[http://ccrjustice.org/sentencing-of-lynne-stewart-michael-steven-smith The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart]</ref> Fink secured a sentence of 28 months,<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/nyregion/16cnd-stewart.html Lawyer Gets Prison Term in Terrorism Case] [[The New York Times]], October 16, 2006</ref> but that was later increased to ten years.<ref>[http://ccrjustice.org/sentencing-of-lynne-stewart-michael-steven-smith The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart]</ref> |
Also in 2006, Fink represented [[Lynne Stewart]] during sentencing after Stewart's conviction for violating special communication measures involving client [[Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman]].<ref>[http://ccrjustice.org/sentencing-of-lynne-stewart-michael-steven-smith The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart]</ref> Fink secured a sentence of 28 months,<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/nyregion/16cnd-stewart.html Lawyer Gets Prison Term in Terrorism Case] [[The New York Times]], October 16, 2006</ref> but that was later increased to ten years.<ref>[http://ccrjustice.org/sentencing-of-lynne-stewart-michael-steven-smith The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart]</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:25, 30 June 2014
Elizabeth Fink is a civil rights and criminal defense attorney. She is most prominently associated with law suits concerning the Attica Prison riots. A class action suit she filed in 1974 was settled in 2000, awarding $12 million to inmates allegedly abused and tortured by prison guards.[1]
Education
Fink graduated from Reed College in 1967.[2]
Legal Work
Fink is founder and senior partner at The Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink, a civil rights, prisoner rights and criminal defense firm in Brooklyn, New York.[3] The Attica lawsuit consumed much of her time until 2000, when prisoners won a $12 million judgment from the state of New York but received neither an apology nor admission of responsibility from the state.[4]
Fink has also represented other prisoners and political radicals. In 1989, she and others secured acquittals for members of the Ohio 7, political radicals who were charged under a federal seditious conspiracy statute.[5]
Along with attorneys Sarah Kunstler (Kunstler's father, William Kunstler, had long been a mentor of Fink) and Jesse Berman, Fink represented Osama Awadallah, a Palestinian college student studying in the United States, who was arrested as a material witness in the days following the September 11, 2001 attacks and prosecuted for alleged perjury before the grand jury investigating the terrorist attacks. Awadallah was acquitted in November 2006.
Also in 2006, Fink represented Lynne Stewart during sentencing after Stewart's conviction for violating special communication measures involving client Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.[6] Fink secured a sentence of 28 months,[7] but that was later increased to ten years.[8]
Fink also represented Jeremy Hammond, who was convicted in 2013 for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing its documents through the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.
Fink and her paralegal Frank Smith, an inmate leader at the time of the riots, were featured in the 2001 Court TV documentary “Ghosts of Attica”, which tells the story of the Attica uprising and subsequent lawsuits by Attica inmates.
Articles and Videos
External links
References
- ^ A bloody day in New York The Economist, September 23, 2011
- ^ Still Fighting
- ^ Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink
- ^ A bloody day in New York The Economist, September 23, 2011
- ^ Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink: Attorneys
- ^ The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart
- ^ Lawyer Gets Prison Term in Terrorism Case The New York Times, October 16, 2006
- ^ The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart