The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.
The only thing we have is each other. - Lynne Stewart
The only thing we have is each other.
- Lynne Stewart
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail. - Lynne Stewart
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.
I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, d… - Lynne Stewart
I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, d…
Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they'… - Lynne Stewart
Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they'…
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work. - Lynne Stewart
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
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. - Lynne Stewart
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.
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… - Lynne Stewart
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…
The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid. - Lynne Stewart
The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling. - Lynne Stewart
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.
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