Word: prosecutor
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Scheffer said he sees a solution to the larger conflict between national sovereignty and the court's jurisdiction in the principle of "complementarity." According to this principle, the international court would defer to state courts if they are deemed sound by an independent prosecutor...
There are valid legal concerns over mapping out the Court's jurisdiction and defining the power of its prosecutor and important moral questions about whether or not a universal standard of justice is applicable, or even desirable. These objections, however, should be discussed and debated in Rome; they should not be used to kill the endeavor from Capitol Hill. Some of the most heinous human beings of our time are laughing at the world right now, confident that they will never be punished for their crimes, and it seems as though they may be right...
...prosecutor was hoping Tucker could corroborate a central allegation against Clinton: that in 1986 Clinton pressured former judge David Hale to make an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That allegation came from Hale, a convicted felon whose credibility took another beating last month when published reports accused him of receiving payments from right-wing Clinton haters. Clinton's other Whitewater partner, Jim McDougal, at first denied the allegation, then confirmed it--but his credibility was no better than Hale's, and he died last month in prison. Starr can't build a case around the Hale loan unless...
Starr has always known that to make a credible case against Clinton he must go beyond sex to prove a pattern of obstruction. Sources tell TIME that the prosecutor appears to be close to wrapping up just such a case and reporting it to Congress. "Starr has enough to send up to the Hill," says a lawyer familiar with the case. After gathering documents, E-mail and testimony from Lewinsky's confidantes, Starr and his deputies may have gathered sufficient corroborating evidence to prove that what Lewinsky said in her tape-recorded conversations with Linda Tripp was more than...
...important and which are not. And by slowing Starr's investigation until after the Jones case comes to trial next month, Clinton could use the not-guilty verdict he expects to argue the pointlessness of Starr's efforts. Of course, even if Starr wins the privilege fight, the prosecutor might not gain all that much. Clinton aides can simply take a page from their boss and say they don't remember...