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...builds his entire case on the memory lapse of one of Hill's key supporters, Judge Susan Hoerchner. Hoerchner was able to provide pivotal evidence for Hill, since she testified that Hill had confided that she was being sexually harassed ten years before. Her charges, therefore, could not have been trumped up solely to discredit Thomas...
Brock notes that Hoerchner had initially testified that Hill had confided in her before moving to work with Thomas as his assistant at the Department of Education. The sexual harassment to which she referred must have taken place at Hill's previous employer. Only by mistaking the dates was Hoerchner able to provide the evidence to support Hill's claims...
Brock picks apart the testimony of Susan Hoerchner, a law-school friend of Hill's who remained in close touch when the two lived in Washington in the early 1980s. Hoerchner became one of Hill's corroborating witnesses when she told the fbi that in a phone call in the spring of 1981 Hill had complained to her of being harassed by her supervisor. Brock notes with pleasure that Hill did not start work with Thomas at the Department of Education until September 1981, so she could not have complained about Thomas in the spring...
...Hoerchner maintains that she told FBI agents who had interviewed her earlier that her attempt to put a precise date on the conversation was a "wild guess" and that she offered it only when repeatedly pressed by them to be more specific. Brock makes much of the fact that in September, when Hill started work with Thomas, Hoerchner moved to California, where she is now a workers' compensation judge. By her own testimony she "lost touch" with Hill. "If you look at how she's remembering the date, I think it's as plain as day that the call came...
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