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Hi Sue,
It is up to the jury to evaluate any witness. The great majority of people
in the witness protection program are criminals themselves, convicted or
not. Some who were not and left the program despite the threat to their
personal security complained bitterly of their treatment as criminals.
The reason Susan McDougal did not just go before the grand jury and lie for
Clinton is that Starr has evidence that would impeach her. That is, of
course, the source of the nonsensical claim that she was willing to go to
jail to avoid having to go to jail. It is amazing that adults of reasonable
intelligence can swallow such stuff.
I can understand why a prosecutor might not put on minor and unnecessary
witnesses as apparently happened in your jury duty when he found out the
witnesses were convicted felons. Naturally a prosecutor would prefer only
the most innocent and chaste of witnesses but they are not always available
and are most unlikely as witnesses to conspiracy.
>Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>
>Hi Terry:
>
>I can understand what you are saying, but I thought that if a person was
>a convicted felon their testimony wasn't considered any good (or
>something to that effect). When I was on jury duty a couple of the so
>called witnesses were excused because they had a felony record.
>
>Sue
>> I doubt there have been many, if any, mob leaders or druglords that have
>> been convicted without the testimony of fellow mobsters. Starr's methods of
>> going up the chain of conspirators is the natural progression of conviction
>> by all prosecutors in such cases. The unwillingness of such witnesses to
>> testify is what keeps the mob bosses out of jail just as it is doing with
>> the Clintons so far.
>>
>> Susan McDougal herself was convicted largely by the testimony of David Hale,
>> who was a convicted perjurer. Naturally such testimony has to be backed by
>> reasonable evidence.
>>
>>
>> Best, Terry
>
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>1. Don't tell people everything you know.
>2.
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Best, Terry
"Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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