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To: Neocon who wrote (46586)	5/7/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) of 67261

Just in case any of the other alleged legal authorities want to explain it, here's the AP story: nytimes.com Ms. Steele's lawyers didn't call any defense witnesses. Defense attorney Nancy Luque had said in opening statements that Ms. Steele would testify, but her legal team decided not to put her on the witness stand where she would be exposed to cross-examination by Starr's prosecutors. Prosecutors produced three witnesses who said Ms. Steele informed them she had known of the alleged Clinton advance before 1997. Each of the three witnesses testified Ms. Steele insisted to them later that she hadn't told them. Defense attorneys questioned why Mrs. Willey now remembers the alleged encounter with Clinton and her conversations with Ms. Steele in much more detail than she did the first time she told the story under oath -- during her January 1998 deposition for the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Trying to explain her state of mind during the Jones deposition, Mrs. Willey testified that she had been frightened by a threatening encounter two days earlier with a stranger who knew that her cat was missing and her car tires had been slashed. She also said Clinton lawyer Robert Bennett in a conversation suggested she invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer the questions -- a statement she said she regarded as a ''threat coming from the president.'' Outside of court, Bennett denied ever making such a statement. Trying to show Mrs. Willey as emotionally unbalanced, Ms. Steele's lawyers made Mrs. Willey recount a grocery store confrontation in which she called Ms. Steele a four-letter word. Mrs. Willey said she regretted the confrontation, but said Ms. Steele had been attacking her in TV interviews and public appearances over the past year. Ms. Steele's lawyers also delved into her taking of various antidepressants, including Prozac. Mrs. Willey said she had been depressed for some time after her husband's suicide which occurred the same day as the alleged Clinton advance. And Mrs. Willey admitted she lied to Starr's investigators when they asked about a past relationship in which she had pretended to be pregnant. Rather than abandoning their witness, Starr's office granted a second grant of immunity from prosecution from Starr's office as a result of that lie. Well shoot, I can't possible see why anybody would have any trouble figuring out the TRUTH in all that. Another DC jury, as a certain alleged attorney would say.

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