IL: "I don't believe he is a criminal"

In the wake of the George Ryan trial, here is a profile from the Chicago Sun-Times of one of my instructors at NCDC and the Darrow College, Andrea Lyon:

'I do not believe he is a criminal and conspirator'

Lyon is about the furthest an attorney can be from that silk-stocking, money-making operation.

At 53, her legal career, 14 years of it as a public defender, could best be defined by all the money she never made on behalf of causes she passionately believed in when nobody else did. "She bleeds defense blood," says her friend and DePaul Law School faculty colleague Len Cavise.

I know that to be true...