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08-30-2000, 02:13 PM
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/649359
Aug. 29, 2000, 8:24PM -- Clinton says disbarment is too harsh
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- 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 a five-page response to a complaint filed by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, the president said he would not receive such a stiff sanction if his case were 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 had 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.
Marie-Bernarde Miller, the prosecutor, would not comment on Clinton's filing.
What do you think. Is disbarrment too harsh?
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Aug. 29, 2000, 8:24PM -- Clinton says disbarment is too harsh
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- 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 a five-page response to a complaint filed by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, the president said he would not receive such a stiff sanction if his case were 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 had 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.
Marie-Bernarde Miller, the prosecutor, would not comment on Clinton's filing.
What do you think. Is disbarrment too harsh?
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