Lawyers for human rights attorney Lynne Stewart have asked for a new trial claiming that she did not have an impartial jury. In February Stewart was convicted of five counts of conspiracy and lying and of helping her client — the imprisoned blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — send messages to his followers. One juror failed to disclose that he was biased against criminal defendants. A second juror has said she was intimidated by other jurors to convict Stewart. During the deliberations a fellow juror warned her that if she did not vote to convict that it would be “her fault” if anyone died in another terrorist attack.