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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release December 22, 2000

STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY

The trial judge in Archibald Schaffer's case concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction. The judge also said that the statute required him to impose a sentence that was neither just nor fair. The President believes that what happened here was wrong.

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