Oh.. too bad, so sad. Whine-o. 
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Clinton says disbarment too harsh a punishment
By JAMES JEFFERSON, Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (August 29, 2000 10:45 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - In a five-page response, President Clinton said Tuesday he should not be disbarred over his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, telling a state judge that losing his law license is too harsh a penalty.
In responding to a complaint filed by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, the president said that he would not receive such a stiff sanction if his case was handled like similar cases.
"On the basis of the relevant facts, the governing law and the applicable decisions of the Arkansas courts ..., a sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case," Clinton's lawyers wrote.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Leon Johnson said he expected to receive Clinton's filing Tuesday but otherwise would not discuss the case, including when it might be scheduled for a hearing or trial.
The state conduct committee says the president lied about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky when asked about it, under oath, in January 1998. Jones' lawyers asked the president about Lewinsky while a federal judge presided over his deposition.
In a lawsuit filed against Clinton June 30, the conduct committee's prosecutor accused the president of lying to spare himself embarrassment. In the response filed Tuesday, Clinton's lawyers acknowledged that the president was attempting to save face.
Clinton "took actions motivated in part by a desire to protect himself and others from embarrassment," the lawyers wrote.
Marie-Bernarde Miller, the prosecutor, would not comment on Clinton's filing. She had asked that the matter be cleared up before the end of the year when Johnson leaves office, but would not say if Tuesday's filing would help her meet that timetable.
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found Clinton in contempt last year and fined him more than $90,000, saying he intentionally gave misleading testimony about Lewinsky.
Clinton's lawyers also acknowledged that the president didn't fight the contempt citation, but said he did not do so because the needs of the country came first.
Jones filed suit in May 1994, alleging Clinton made a crude sexual advance toward her three years earlier in a Little Rock hotel room. Jones had hoped to use evidence of the Lewinsky affair as part of an attempt to show a pattern of predatory behavior.
Wright, however, said the Lewinsky material was not essential to Jones' case, and later dismissed Jones' lawsuit.
Clinton's lawyers said Tuesday that the testimony at the center of the disbarment lawsuit was so minor that stripping the president of his law license would be too severe of a penalty.
Matt Glavin, president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation of Atlanta, which had asked for Clinton's disbarment, said after Tuesday's filing that the proposed sanctions were not too harsh.
"In fact, they are precisely what the American Bar Association recommends based on this behavior," Glavin said.
"Honesty and candor are absolute prerequisites in our bar," Glavin said. "The Supreme Court has made it clear what's required for membership in the Arkansas bar. Mr. Clinton doesn't meet those standards."
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The story can be found HERE.
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
As seen in Atlanta's AJC, The Vent: "Let it be known that in this great metropolitan area that you might be able to get away with murder, but you'd better not bash a mailbox."
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
Clinton says disbarment too harsh a punishment
By JAMES JEFFERSON, Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (August 29, 2000 10:45 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - In a five-page response, President Clinton said Tuesday he should not be disbarred over his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, telling a state judge that losing his law license is too harsh a penalty.
In responding to a complaint filed by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, the president said that he would not receive such a stiff sanction if his case was handled like similar cases.
"On the basis of the relevant facts, the governing law and the applicable decisions of the Arkansas courts ..., a sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case," Clinton's lawyers wrote.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Leon Johnson said he expected to receive Clinton's filing Tuesday but otherwise would not discuss the case, including when it might be scheduled for a hearing or trial.
The state conduct committee says the president lied about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky when asked about it, under oath, in January 1998. Jones' lawyers asked the president about Lewinsky while a federal judge presided over his deposition.
In a lawsuit filed against Clinton June 30, the conduct committee's prosecutor accused the president of lying to spare himself embarrassment. In the response filed Tuesday, Clinton's lawyers acknowledged that the president was attempting to save face.
Clinton "took actions motivated in part by a desire to protect himself and others from embarrassment," the lawyers wrote.
Marie-Bernarde Miller, the prosecutor, would not comment on Clinton's filing. She had asked that the matter be cleared up before the end of the year when Johnson leaves office, but would not say if Tuesday's filing would help her meet that timetable.
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found Clinton in contempt last year and fined him more than $90,000, saying he intentionally gave misleading testimony about Lewinsky.
Clinton's lawyers also acknowledged that the president didn't fight the contempt citation, but said he did not do so because the needs of the country came first.
Jones filed suit in May 1994, alleging Clinton made a crude sexual advance toward her three years earlier in a Little Rock hotel room. Jones had hoped to use evidence of the Lewinsky affair as part of an attempt to show a pattern of predatory behavior.
Wright, however, said the Lewinsky material was not essential to Jones' case, and later dismissed Jones' lawsuit.
Clinton's lawyers said Tuesday that the testimony at the center of the disbarment lawsuit was so minor that stripping the president of his law license would be too severe of a penalty.
Matt Glavin, president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation of Atlanta, which had asked for Clinton's disbarment, said after Tuesday's filing that the proposed sanctions were not too harsh.
"In fact, they are precisely what the American Bar Association recommends based on this behavior," Glavin said.
"Honesty and candor are absolute prerequisites in our bar," Glavin said. "The Supreme Court has made it clear what's required for membership in the Arkansas bar. Mr. Clinton doesn't meet those standards."
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The story can be found HERE.
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
As seen in Atlanta's AJC, The Vent: "Let it be known that in this great metropolitan area that you might be able to get away with murder, but you'd better not bash a mailbox."
