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University Dailv Kansan / Tuesdav. March 17. 1992
Hillary Clinton: not in conflict
She shies from state business
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm has received at least $235,000 from state agencies since 1985, but the wife of Gov. Bill Clinton said yesterday that she had not shared the firm's profits from state business.
Hillary Clinton said that she had given up thousands of dollars in legal fees to avoid any conflict with her husband's administration.
Democratic presidential contender Jerry Brown has accused Clinton of unethically funneling state money to his wife's law firm. The controversy points out difficulties that confront a career woman such as Hillary Clinton whose husband has political ambitions.
"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had bad breath."
Hillary Clinton does receive a small portion of nominal fees that the Rose Law Firm collects from private clients to lobby or petition
state agencies, one of her law partners said.
"It could be a potential conflict," said Webb Hubbell, a senior partner with the Little Rock firm. "But she would backward the other way to avoid any."
One such client was Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, which was owned by a friend and business partner of the Clintons. The law firm represented the troubled thrift before the state Securities Department in the 1890s.
Clinton, on the presidential campaign trail, blasted Brown for questioning the couple's legal dealings who accused him of impugning his wife
"It's just a typical thing men do to professional women," Gov. Clinton said vesterday.
Mary Dee Harris, chairperson of the Task Force on Women's Issues for the Woman's National Democratic Club, said that the type of criticism that Hillary Clinton had received would become more common as women gained prominence in politics and business.
"When women competing in a small world move out into the world at-large, they are seen by more people and are vulnerable to attacks."
Hillary Clinton said, "The important issue is that the kind of choices women have to make today are the tough choices. That's still difficult for people to understand."
Harris said.
Asked if she could continue to work as a lawyer if her husband were president, Hillary Clinton said "I have always have to rethink that one more time."
"I'm going to have to really think through what the rules are because right now I'm really confused how I would do or if I could."
The 172-year-old Rose Law Firm is one of the oldest law firms west of the Mississippi River. It is known for its strong bonds than for lobbying and bond business.
State Department of Finance and Administration records, which cover most state agencies, show that Rose was paid $135,906 for six contracts with the state since 1985. Bill Clinton has been governor of Arkansas since 1983, and also served a 1978-79 term.
Senoir partner Hubbell said the firm was bond counsel for three of the contracts and had represented state agencies on two others. It also was paid $3,000 in 1986 by North Arkansas Community College.
HOUSTON — A judge withdrew his approval yesterday for a child rape suspect's request to be castrated rather than stand trial. The judge said a doctor could not be found to perform the surgery.
The Associated Press
Doctors won't operate on rape suspect
State District Judge Michael McSpadden agreed March 6 to let Steven Allen Butler be castrated after Butler asked to undergo the procedure rather than stand trial on charges he raped a 13-year-old girl.
Judge says 'no' to castration
The judge had said Butler would be placed on a form of probation for 10 years if he underwent the surgery. If he did not, Butler could have he could be sentenced to life in prison.
McSpadden had said a doctor was willing to perform the surgery on the 28-year-old Butler. But adverse publicity surrounding the case prompted him and another doctor to renege, defense attorney Clyde Williams said.
Another doctor could not be found to perform the orchiectomy, the procedure used in a patient with a history of
The case touched off a storm of controversy. Critics said castration was a barbaric action that did nothing to address the crime of rape, and black activists said the action was racially
motivated because Butler is black.
A local civil rights group said it would try to have the judge removed from the bench and have Williams disbarred because she supported the castration.
"The judge and the lawyer planned to manipulate the family all along," said J. Don Boney, spokesman for the Black United Front. "This is tantamount to racism and genocide. This thing that happened this morning was a farce and a coverup."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Butler on Friday in jail. They did not discuss the case, but Jackson told reporters castration is an "immoral and uncivilized, and an act of barbarism, and a step backward."
In court yesterday, McSpadden called Jackson's comments "interesting, but inaccurate."
One of Butler's sisters and a lawyer representing Butler's family said last week that Butler had had second thoughts about undergoing the procedure. But Williams said Butler had told her as recently as Friday he still wanted to have the operation.
McSpadden's ruling effectively put an end to the castration option, meaning Butler still faces the aggravated sexual assault charge. No trial date
has been set.
McSpadens said it would be moved to a different court, and Williams said she would ask to be removed as Butler was because his family did not support her.
Butler was on probation for indecency with a 7-year-old girl when he was arrested last April for his alleged attacks on the 13-year-old.
Williams said Butler approached her last year about getting the castration after he read a newspaper article written by McSpadden in which the judge supported the surgery as a means of alternative sentencing.
McSpadden asked Butler in court yesterday whether he had been coerced by anyone into asking for the castration.
"No sir," he replied.
Despite his action in Butler's case, McSpadden said he still believed alternatives must be found to incarceration because criminals often served only a fraction of their sentences.
Reading from a statement, McSpadden also said "the ugly and unwarranted racial attacks" made against him during the controversy were "irresponsible" and "a disservice not only to the black community, but to our community as a whole."
The judge said he would not comment again on the case.
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