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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks
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To: McNabb Brothers who wrote (16353)12/22/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd  Read Replies (2) of 18691
 
Hank,

If he can be shown to have broken the law, that's one thing.

If all he can be shown to have done is something that lots of other guys in power do regularly, then it's really too bad, he's a jerk, but there's no law against that.

And incidentally, you should look up the definition of perjury. "Lying under oath" alone doesn't cut it. It must involve:

* LYING under oath
* About something which is MATERIAL
* KNOWING that it was a lie at the time you told it.

Bill will claim that:

* He wasn't lying, since he didn't consider his relationship with Monica "sex."

* He certainly couldn't KNOW he was lying, given that he didn't think it was a lie in the first place.

* A consensual relationship with a woman who willingly offered her "services" was not at all material to the Paula Jones case.

I think the first two are pretty absurd arguements. The latter is very strong. Most attorneys I know are very surprised that the entire line of questioning wasn't dismissed as irrelevant.

Bottom line to me is that he's a jerk and an embarrasement. But doubt he could ever be convicted "beyond a reasonable doubt" in a normal court of law. In fact, doubt a normal prosecutor would bother with the case at all.

mg
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