 Paul is a male English spot rabbit! He’s about 1 ½ years old. He’s already neutered and ready to go home today! Paul must go home with his female bunny friend, Jelly Bean, whom he’s lived with for more than a year now. (She’s fixed, too!) Their adoption fee together is $60 and includes cardboard carriers to get them home safely. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 or at www.vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!
BREAKING NEWS FROM T V CHANNEL 44
Authorities say the body of a teen who fell into Pigeon Creek while fishing Saturday evening has been found.
Indiana Conservation Officers report the body of 16-year-old Maurice Gray of Evansville was found just before 3pm Sunday. Side scan sonar marked a place of interest and a remote operated underwater camera confirmed the object was the body of Gray. Evansville Fire Department Public Safety Divers made the recovery.
An autopsy will be scheduled for a later time to confirm the cause of death.
Evansville and Perry Township Fire Departments, the Evansville Police Department, Indiana Conservation Officers and other agencies began searching for Gray Saturday but has to call off the search when it became to dark.
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The Legal Consequences Suffered By Former President Clinton Stemming From Lewinsky Scandal.
by Dan Even
Shortly after Bill Clinton took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to make the case that his wife Hillary Clinton should be the next President of the United States, an image purportedly listing the various fines and consequences he suffered for lying under oath during the Monica Lewinsky scandal showed up on social media.
The list displayed above is mostly accurate, although some of the claims deserve extra clarification:
Bill Clinton was disbarred from practicing law in Arkansas and was also disbarred from practicing law in front of the Supreme Court over the Lewinsky incident.
While Clinton can no longer practice law in front of the highest court, it’s not accurate to say that he was disbarred from either the Supreme Court or from practicing law in Arkansas. Clinton’s license was suspended in Arkansas, but he was not disbarred, and while Clinton did face the possibility of being barred from arguing in front the U.S. Supreme Court, he resigned before the ruling was handed down.
On his last day in office in 2001, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license in order to head off any criminal charges for lying under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky. Clinton has been eligible to seek reinstatement of his license since 2006, but as of 2013 he had not applied to do so.
Shortly after Clinton’s license was suspended in Arkansas, the U.S. Supreme Court suspended Clinton from presenting cases in front of the highest court (which he had never done) and gave him 40 days to contest his disbarment (which Clinton did not do). Instead, he resigned from the Supreme Court bar:
Former President Clinton, facing the possibility of being barred from practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court because of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, has resigned instead, his lawyer said.
“Former President Clinton hereby respectfully requests to resign from the bar of this court,” his lawyer, David Kendall, said in a two-page letter to the high court’s clerk. Kendall did not elaborate on why Clinton decided to resign.
Clinton’s resignation from the Supreme Court bar will have little practical impact. Clinton has not practiced before the Supreme Court and was not expected to argue any cases in the future.
He also paid a $25,000 fine over the Lewinsky incident.
In addition to agreeing to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license, Clinton accepted a $25,000 fine:
Mr. Clinton paid the fine with a personal check on March 21, said Marie-Bernarde Miller, the lawyer who handled a disbarment lawsuit brought by a committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
“The case is completed,” Ms. Miller said.
Clinton was fined $90,000 for giving false testimony in the Paula Jones case.
In April 1999, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found Clinton in contempt of court for giving false testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment trial and fined him over $90,000:
The federal judge who found President Clinton in contempt of court levied a penalty of $90,686 against him, making him the first chief executive ever assessed such a payment.
Repeating her condemnation of Clinton for lying under oath in the Paula Corbin Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said that she was imposing the sanction to cover some of Jones’ legal expenses and “to deter others who might consider emulating the president’s misconduct.”
Robert S. Bennett, Clinton’s private attorney, said that he would not challenge the ruling. “We accept the judgment of the court and will comply with it.”
He also paid an $850,000 settlement over the Lewinsky incident.
Bill Clinton did write a large settlement check, but that money went to Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky,
In 1994, Paula Jones filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton. Thar case dragged on for four years (while Clinton was serving as President) before it was finally settled in November 1998 with a check for $850,000:
Clinton mailed the settlement cheque to Mrs. Jones, even as he braced for the heaviest fallout yet from her harassment suit — an impeachment trial in the Senate.
To finance the settlement, the president drew about $375,000 from his and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal funds and got the rest of the money, about $475,000, from an insurance policy, a White House official told The Associated Press.
“This ends it. The check is being Fed-Exed” to Bill McMillan, one of Mrs. Jones’ lawyers, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Race Took Place At Angel MoundsÂ
A field of close to 300 runners took part in the first annual Bailey George Memorial 5K Walk/Run on Saturday morning at Angel Mounds.
An exciting start to the day saw the children in attendance run a 400-meter race on the final part of the main course. It was a unique opportunity for the youth to complete a shorter race.
Following that portion, the 5K run took place. Making this a unique event, those who took part moved at their own pace with some running, others walking and some circling the course as a group, enjoying the chance to be on the same course that Bailey did less than a year ago.
Current and former members of the Purple Aces cross country squads ran the race in honor of their friend and teammate. University of Evansville President Dr. Tom Kazee along with several university and athletic staff members and coaches also ran in the event. At the finish line, each person was given a medal commemorating Bailey George.
Special thanks go out to the Purple Aces’ women’s soccer, volleyball and men’s soccer teams for volunteering their time at the event. Purple Aces Club board members as well as athletic staff also worked the event.
All proceeds from the event benefited the Bailey George Scholarship, which will go to a student at UE who is or has battled cancer. Donations are still being accepted here: http://www.evansville.edu/give.
Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com
The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a man’s misdemeanor failure to identify conviction that had been reversed by a divided panel of the Court of Appeals.
Justices reinstated the Class C misdemeanor conviction and $100 fine imposed on Corey T. Weaver, who initially refused to give his name or date of birth when an officer stopped him for an inoperable license plate light. Weaver couldn’t produce a license and initially identified himself as “Mr. Weaver,†but he refused to provide his first name or date of birth. Weaver eventually provided the information after about 16 minutes of questioning. He was convicted in a Hendricks County bench trial.
“We agree with Judge Altice that the evidence was sufficient to support Weaver’s conviction under Indiana Code section 34-28-5-3.5,†justices wrote in a two-page per curiam decision affirming the trial court.
Judge Paul Mathias wrote the majority Court of Appeals opinion joined by Judge James Kirsch that would have reversed the conviction. While calling Weaver’s conduct reprehensible, the majority reversed because his eventual cooperation meant that state failed to meet its burden of proving Weaver refused to provide his mane, address and date of birth.
UE Well Represented On The List
ST. LOUIS– Sixty-six student-athletes highlight more than 1,500 who earned selection to the 2015-16 Missouri Valley Conference Honor Roll, as announced by the league office. Those 66 student-athletes earned the league’s highest academic achievement by capturing the Missouri Valley Conference President’s Council Academic Excellence Award.
The President’s Council Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum 3.8 cumulative grade point average (through Spring 2016 semester), participation in athletics a minimum of two years, and the student-athlete must be within 18 hours of graduation. Also, hundreds of student-athletes received the league’s Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award, which requires a minimum grade point average of 3.5 for the previous two semesters, a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average, and participation in athletics.
In addition, the Missouri Valley Conference has announced its 2015-16 Honor Roll, which recognizes academic achievement of student-athletes. To qualify for the Valley Honor Roll, a student-athlete must have recorded a minimum 3.2 grade point average for a specified term (Fall 2015/Spring 2016), must have been a member of an athletics team, and must have a minimum of 12 hours of enrollment during the fall or spring semesters.
UE’s President’s Council Academic Excellence Award Winners:
Evansville — Knights, William — Men’s Golf
Evansville — Arguello, Allie — Women’s Soccer
Evansville — Smith, Abigail — Women’s Swimming
Evansville — Beaber, Katherine — Women’
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