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'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.
If they can do this to me, they will do it to other people.
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.
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.
It's so hard to fight against ghosts, when they say there's evidence and it's not there.
It's hard to be zealous when you are looking over your shoulder and thinking, 'Could the government indict me for this?'
It certainly is a great relief, ... It's also wonderful to know that the case maybe has opened a way for the use of this (1996) law to be circumscribed, curtailed a little bit.
Archie was always the spokesman for the Stewart family. But he's not the namesake.
The bright line says the lawyer doesn't become part of the criminal enterprise, whatever that enterprise may be,
Their car was ... running out of gas. They had all this legislation, all this money, all this homeland security, and they had very little to show for it, so they went back into the files and dug us up,
I'm very shook up, and surprised, and disappointed that the jury didn't see what we saw,
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,
The only thing we have is each other.
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.