Word: courtroom
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Last week, she was frolicking on a Malibu beach at a Vanity Fair photo shoot. But now it looks as if the good times are over for Monica Lewinsky. Her courtroom bid to enforce the immunity deal she made with Ken Starr back in January has failed. In a sealed decision leaked to reporters Thursday, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled the written suggestion -- immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony -- was not actually a binding agreement. That leaves Starr free to make his next move: Either call Lewinsky before the grand jury, or simply indict...
...newly launched legal appeal will take months, or even a year, to make it to the courtroom. But when it came to emotional appeal, Paula Jones didn't take long to deliver. "Despite the continuing personal strain on my family and me," a tear-streaked Jones told reporters Thursday, "in the end, I have not come this far to see the law let men who have done such things dodge their responsibility...
...doesn't look happy even when he is, was sitting in his office rereading a deposition in the Jones case. He had forsworn any more distraction: no more talk, no more shows, no more press conferences. The next time anyone would see him, he would be in a courtroom. He was sure he had a winning hand, the best one he'd had since having to give up his poker games with Justice Antonin Scalia to represent the President...
...trial ended in victory, Guinier said, and upon its conclusion the courtroom erupted in singing of songs from the civil rights movement...
That battle was joined last week behind the closed doors of Judge Johnson's courtroom. The White House is trying to make the case that certain conversations about the Lewinsky probe amount to official business--a reversal of the usual White House claim that the Lewinsky matter is private and has nothing to do with the President's job. Starr must show he is not merely fishing but knows what he wants to find and where he expects to find it. He must demonstrate that the material he seeks is relevant to his probe and that...