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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (16466)	12/1/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

Liked that article, eh, JLA? Starr's your kinda guy, I know. To quote some old post from somebody, have you no shame? The right to a lawyer is fundamental in our constitutional system. A person accused of crime, the Supreme Court said in the Scottsboro Case in 1932, "requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step." Without it, the innocent person may be overborne by what she does not understand. Police officers occasionally break the rules. It is another matter when prosecutors, who are officers of the court, overbear a young woman to keep her from calling her lawyer. The Starr deputies who were there on Jan. 16 -- Michael Emmick, Jackie Bennett Jr. and Bruce Udolf -- should surely face questions by the appropriate legal authorities on their fitness to practice law. And Mr. Starr condoned what they did. None of this excuses President Clinton's moral folly. But it makes powerfully clear that Kenneth Starr is a far more serious menace to our constitutional order than Bill Clinton is. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/lewis/120198lewi.html)