Lynne Stewart
Lynne Stewart
Lynne Irene Stewartis an American former attorney who was known for representing controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants. She was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically disbarred. She was convicted of helping pass messages from her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an organization designated as...
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth14 December 1946
I'm a lawyer. I fight for my clients. that's what my job is, ... I'm going to continue to be a lawyer, hopefully, until they carry me out. But I sincerely hope it isn't the government that does the carrying.
I've been doing this work for 30 years, and I am well aware of the bright line and I have never stepped over it, and I certainly didn't do it in this case either.
The bright line says the lawyer doesn't become part of the criminal enterprise, whatever that enterprise may be,
Archie was always the spokesman for the Stewart family. But he's not the namesake.
I'm very shook up, and surprised, and disappointed that the jury didn't see what we saw,
It's one of the real sacred precincts of the law -- that your client should be absolutely free to tell you whatever he needs to tell to you, and you should be free to give whatever advice you need to give.
The cherished freedoms that we really need to defend, among them being the right to counsel, the right to having a lawyer that you consult with in absolute privacy -- that's been breached in this case,
Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.
Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.
I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.
I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."