Legal Ethics

Don’t Cry for Me, New York: A Disbarred Civil Rights Lawyer Goes to Jail

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Nov 20, 2009, 10:42 am CST

Disbarred civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart had a few words for her followers on Thursday before she surrendered to begin serving her 28-month prison sentence for helping an imprisoned terrorist communicate with his followers.

As she walked toward the courthouse, Stewart recalled a labor organizer executed in 1915 after a… full story