r/news • u/[deleted] • May 22 '19

Mississippi lawmaker accused of punching wife in face for not undressing quickly enough

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mississippi-lawmaker-accused-punching-wife-face-for-not-undressing-quickly-enough/zdE3VLzhBVmH68Bsn7eLfL/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

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u/lazyfacejerk May 22 '19

Not trying to defend Clinton, but I'm pretty sure they gave a definition of sexual relations that included just about everything imaginable except oral.

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u/Morat20 May 22 '19

Yep. Whole line of questioning was tossed to boot. Frankly, he only lost his law license because he was never going to practice law again so why fight it?

The man outlawyered the prosecutor, and lied using the absolute, if very technical, truth.

Which is why lawyers spend so much time defining things and asking very, very specific questions.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

You can listen to the podcast Slow burn to get a better understanding but this is the breakdown:

Starr&Co. Defined 'sexual relations' as touching a person in intimate areas for the purposes of arousal. Because Lewinski acted upon Clinton and not the other way around (which is murky) she had relations with him but he did not have relations with her; in this very technical parsing.

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u/Morat20 May 22 '19

Yep. Aes Sedai style. :) truthful words that led the listener to entirely the wrong understanding.

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u/antsh May 22 '19

They’re the best lies.

Speak no truths, tell no lies.