STARR UPHELD ON LEWINSKY CLAIM HER ACCESS TO LAWYER NOT PREVENTED, JUDGE RULED EARLY IN CASE.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: December 4, 1998 | Copyright information

Kenneth Starr's prosecutors did not forbid Monica Lewinsky to call her lawyer when they first confronted her at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Jan. 16, and in fact they gave her several opportunities to call anyone she chose, a federal district judge concluded in a finding unsealed this week.

Contrary to that finding, which was issued last April but kept sealed until now, President Clinton's lawyers and House Democrats have argued that prosecutors mistreated Lewinsky by repeatedly refusing her the opportunity to call her lawyer, Francis Carter. They maintain that the incident ...

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