Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hale's Sickness Questioned > LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Prosecutors want an independent > doctor to review the hospital records of David Hale, > the Whitewater figure whose state trial was delayed > this week when he was admitted with chest pains. > > Asked if he thought Hale was faking, Deputy Prosecutor > Hugh Finkelstein said, ``You always want to get some > objective proof. I'd do that no matter who the person > was.'' > > Hale's lawyer, David Bowden, insisted Friday that Hale > has been ailing for months, saying Friday his > hospitalized client was as pale ``as a piece of typing > paper.'' > > Hale had a device implanted in his chest last summer to > regulate an irregular heartbeat. > > Prosecutor Larry Jegley also asked the court Friday to > force Hale to deposit $8,500 as security to cover the > airfare and accommodations of a key prosecution witness > from Africa. > > The witness -- Michael Rutherford -- planned to return > to Tanzania on Saturday and can't return to Arkansas > until the end of next week. Circuit Judge David Bogard > has said the trial will resume Thursday. > > ``I'm not feeling real charitable right now,'' Jegley > said. > > Hale, 56, is charged with lying to insurance regulators > about the solvency of the burial insurance company the > state says he owned. He was rushed to the hospital > Thursday -- an hour before opening statements were to > begin. > > Bowden was skeptical that the prosecutor could get any > money out of Hale, since he said his client owes the > federal government over $2 million. > > ``He doesn't have any funds; that's why I'm working pro > bono,'' he said. > > Hale pleaded guilty in the Whitewater case in 1994 to > fraud and agreed to cooperate in the investigation of > President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton. He served > 28 months. > > Hale was a key witness in the 1996 Whitewater trial of > James and Susan McDougal and then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. > All three were convicted. > -- 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
