I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.
Lynne StewartIf you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.
Lynne StewartThe 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.
Lynne StewartToday, it's not the same playing field as when I first became a lawyer in 1977, where the government had been restricted by our wonderful Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's court rulings. Now it's all going the other way, the flow is against the defendant, against anything that could really help a client. But you still fight it, you do what you can do. It's all there is.
Lynne Stewart