Clinton Speech Shows Perjury in Jones Case

DALLAS (Reuters) - Attorneys for Paula Jones said President Bill Clinton`s confession on Monday that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky proved he lied under oath in the sexual harassment lawsuit their client brought against him. They pledge

d to push for court action against Clinton and said a jury would have trouble believing him if Jones` lawsuit is revived by an appeals court and ever goes to court. "The jury will see he is just a liar," attorney David Pyke told Reuters in a telephone interview shortly after Clinton admitted in a televised address that his relationship with Lewinsky, a former White House intern, was "wrong". Jones` lawyers questioned Clinton at length about his relationship with Lewinsky during his pre-trial deposition in the sexual harassment civil suit in January. He responded then by saying they never had a sexual affair and said he could not recall ever being alone with her. He changed his story in his address to the nation on Monday evening but insisted he had not lied during the January deposition, explaining that he had simply not given Jones` attorneys all the information. "While my answers were legally accurate, I did not volunteer information," Clinton said, just hours after he testified to a grand jury on the matter. Pyke disputed Clinton`s claim. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating the Lewinsky matter to determine whether Clinton perjured himselfin the Jones case and whether he obstructed justice by pressuring Lewinsky to lie under oath. Lewinsky also said during her testimony in the Jones case that she and Clinton did not have an affair but earlier this month she told a grand jury that they had numerous consensual sexual encounters. Jones alleged in her lawsuit that Clinton exposed himself and asked her for oral sex inside a hotel room in 1991. He was governor of Arkansas at the time and she was a state employee. The lawsuit was thrown out by a Little Rock federal judge in April but Jones` legal team is appealing that decision and Pyke said they will use Clinton`s public about-face on the Lewinsky matter to boost their arguments. He said they will ask the courts to penalise Clinton for "lying" in his January deposition, and that punishment could range from a simple fine to a rejection of his pleadings, a move that would give Jones victory in the case. "It shifts the momentum and could make the judges feel that something fundamentally was wrong," he said.

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