Word: proving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President was awakened by Bruce Lindsey who told him about the Arkansas shooting,? says Isaacson. ?He was so upset he couldn't get back to sleep. He called people back in Arkansas to keep talking about it through the night.? Developing a policy response to that tragedy may prove even more complex than the Rwanda dilemma...
...alleged sexual encounters may have been crude and boorish, but they are not criminal; if Clinton pressured paramours not to talk, it might be revealing, but it carries no criminal liability as long as he wasn't tampering with a case. Starr's best hope is to try to prove that Clinton or his friends sought to silence women after they had been subpoenaed to testify in the Jones suit--or used troopers or other government agents to keep their mouths shut...
...short, even if Starr could prove that Clinton fondled women, sought to obtain their silence through favors or intimidation and then lied about it, the prosecutor would still have difficulty lining up the chain of proof required in a criminal case. As a lawyer working on the case put it last week, Clinton "may have had sex with Monica, and he may have helped her with a job, but he can say it was never in an effort to silence her in the Jones case." That leaves Starr with an unpleasant choice: forwarding to Congress what looks like a circumstantial...
Paula Jones too is asserting that Clinton's alleged pass at her created a hostile environment, but she may have a hard time proving it. The judge in the case has ruled that a single incident of harassment could be enough to create a hostile environment. But most experts agree that such an incident would have to be especially outrageous. "From what I've seen, [Jones] clearly doesn't have pervasiveness--it was just one incident--so she has to prove severity," says Deborah Epstein, who teaches law at Georgetown University. "And there are lots of things worse than this...
...accusers had "credibility problems." Denying Hoster's charge, for instance, McKinney testified that he had visited her hotel room not for sex but to fire her. Prosecutors pointed out that he had been wearing his gym shorts, but as in a civilian trial, the Army's burden was to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. "Most of the complaints went back in time for months or years," a senior Army official observes. "None of the women came forward when they said they were assaulted, and that leads to reasonable doubt." Some commentators also felt that the jury may have...