His thoughts, though, were his own business. Still, he was forced to recant. He was thinking the wrong way. When I spoke with Stewart, I found a woman at ease with herself. But there had been moments when she had to ask herself if she were not loony in some way, incapable of knowing when, as White put it, she had crossed a line.
Criminals usually know that they have committed a crime.
In the view of the prosecutor, Stewart did not. Her actions were allegedly illegal. Her thoughts were wrong as well. It's the prosecutor and the state legislators who framed the law that need some reeducation. In the spirit of the diversion agreement, they might admit that while it was not their intention to impose thought control they had managed to do so anyway.