Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 5 (UPI) _ Susan McDougal, speaking through her fiance, says if independent counsel Kenneth Starr ``wishes to bring me back into a courtroom to test my beliefs, then he will get more than he bargained for.'' Pat Harris, reading a statement by McDougal, who is in jail for her refusal to testify before Starr's grand jury, says she will not perjure herself ``for leniency,'' and quoted John Paul Jones, ``I have not yet begun to fight.'' McDougal was indicted Monday on two charges of criminal contempt and one of obstruction of justice for refusing to testify before the Whitewater grand jury. McDougal will face a criminal trial on new charges after already having served an 18-month sentence for civil contempt for refusing to testify in September 1996 before the Whitewater grand jury. Arraignment has been set for May 14. She was indicted Monday on more serious charges of criminal contempt for failing to testify in 1996 and then again last month after being admonished each time to do so by U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright. The obstruction of justice count is also for refusing to answer questions in the grand jury. Mark Geragos, McDougal's attorney, says his client will not be ``bullied'' by Starr. He says filing criminal contempt charges against a person who has already served 18 months for civil contempt is ``unprecedented.'' McDougal said she chose not to defend herself and to not take the stand in her own defense in her first trial, adding, ``in retrospect I realize these were mistakes....It is a mistake that will not happen again.'' McDougal said if Starr ``expects to see the same naive, passive woman from the previous trial they are in for a surprise. I intend to fight these charges with every ounce of strength I have.'' McDougal, who was convicted in May 1996 of fraud and conspiracy in the Whitewater investigation, has been jailed in Little Rock in the final weeks of the grand jury that is set to expire on Thursday. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
