Lynne Irene Stewart

Overview

Lynne Irene Stewart born Brooklyn, NY October 8, 1939. Human rights lawyer; sentenced to 28 months prison for helping terrorist, 2009.

Quotations

"Once we allow the government to define the people we’re defending, it’s a slippery slope downward to the government will just no longer need lawyers, no longer need defenses, no longer need any kind of court proceeding, because they will decide in advance who is guilty and who is not." (Democracy Now, June 24, 2004)

"I see myself as being a symbol of what people rail against when they say our civil liberties are eroded, I hope this will be a wake-up call to all the citizens of this country, that you can't lock up the lawyers, you can't tell the lawyers how to do their jobs. I will fight on, I'm not giving up, I know I committed no crime. I know what I did was right." (NYTimes 11 Feb. 2005; photo 2005 wikicom pd)