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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Doughboy who wrote (2853)8/24/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: Jim Roof   of 13994
 
<<A couple of distinctions to be drawn, however: Jones was not an employee of the Governor.>>

While it is true that Jones did not work in the Governor's Office it is also true that Jones was aware of the influence that Clinton would have via his well connected status to the Arkansas State government. Mr. Clinton was in a position to either reward or punish her. As an aside, it could also be argued that what is relevant here is Jones' mental state at the time of the proposition. It is considered armed robbery if all one does is put their hand under their sweatshirt and point the finger in a hold-up. I think it plausible to argue that Jones, a state employee, would have been in a state of mind that caused her to feel the intimidation of having been sexually approached by a superior.

<<As for Lewinsky, one ruling of the Jones judge is indicative of her view of what materiality the Lewinsky claim was--Judge Webber Wright ruled that further discovery on the ML matter was barred as not relevant under the discovery rules. That means according the ruling the ML's matter was not "reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible material.">>

Judge Webber Wright could only have based her ruling of materiality on the facts available to the court at that time. These facts included a.) Lewinsky's affidavit which is now known to be false and b.) the President's sworn deposition which is also now known to be false. Outside of these two sources of information what would Judge Wright have to go on? Now that the body of information available for making such a judgement has taken a 180 degree turn I have no doubt at all that the Lewinsky material would be perfectly admissable.

I believe that Wright also considered the Starr investigation's needs in making this determination. Perhaps Judge Wright had already seen the weakness of the case and figured there would be no harm in terminating the Lewinsky discovery. Given what we know now, I cannot see Lewinsky's immateriality should the case be revived.

Jim
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