Bid to get Clinton disbarred fails
By MICHAEL ROWETT
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Arkansas' lawyer-discipline committee has dismissed a complaint
alleging that President Clinton should be disbarred because of
his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The complaint was filed Jan. 13 by Jim Parsons of Bella
Vista, state director of the Arkansas Christian Educators
Association and a longtime Clinton critic. The executive director
of the state Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Conduct in
May notified Parsons that the conduct alleged in his grievance
didn't fall under the panel's jurisdiction.
Parsons appealed the decision to the Alternate Committee on
Professional Conduct. In a July 11 letter, Parsons was informed
that a three-member panel of the alternate committee had affirmed
the decision to dismiss the complaint.
In a letter dated Monday to committee acting Director Nancie
Givens of Little Rock, Parsons contended that the dismissal has
damaged the reputation of the state's legal profession. j "It is
your profession that has the thousands of lawyer jokes and it is
every attorney in Arkansas that has been degraded by this
decision to do nothing," Parsons said. j A soldier or a teacher
who admitted to "inappropriate intimate contact" with a
subordinate, as Clinton did, would be fired immediately, so
lawyers should be held accountable, Parsons said Wednesday.
The comment section to Rule 8.4 of the rules governing
Arkansas lawyers states that "offenses concerning some matters of
personal morality, such as adultery and comparable offenses ...
have no specific connection to fitness for the practice of law."
The committee is seeking Clinton's disbarment on the basis of
a referral from Chief U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright of
Little Rock. In April 1999, she found the president in civil
contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony
about his relationship with Lewinsky in a January 1998 deposition
he gave in the Paula Corbin Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit
against him.
Clinton has been licensed to practice law in his home state
since 1973. He has not practiced since 1981-82.
This article was published on Thursday, July 20, 2000
=================================================================
Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT
FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends
Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day.
=================================================================
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A>
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
<A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
