Page 2 Talking with Judge Jeannine Pint about Liars, Liberals and Leakers The Queens Gazette (New York) September 5, 2018 years before by that same name to the millions of viewers who had watched her appear as a legal and political commentator on every major television network - reminds her readers. The story goes back to 1975 and occurred in the state of Arkansas. A beast named Alfred Taylor had been charged with the rape of a twelve- year old girl. The attack was so savage that it left the victim, now a 55 year- old woman, in a coma for several days and damaged her body so severely that she would be unable to have children for the rest of her life. The then 27 year old Clinton had not volunteered to represent Taylor but, rather, was assigned by a judge to serve as his court- appointed defense attorney. So, the fact that she employed a legal technicality to beat the rape charge against Taylor and then bargained with the prosecutor for him to plead guilty to a reduced charge, for which he was to serve less than one year in jail, would, arguably, have been unfair to hold against her. But the story of Clinton, the rapist and the 12 year- old victim does not end there. Recalling how she was able to successfully defend a man she knew to be guilty of such a heinous crime Clinton can be heard boasting in a recorded interview that surfaced in the mid- 1980's, "This guy accused of raping a 12 year -old girl. Course he claimed he didn't do it and all that stuff... I had him take a polygraph, which he passed- which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs." The recording also revealed the sordid sense of humor of Clinton, who was captured laughing as she recalled that her defense of Taylor was aided by the Arkansas crime lab, which had accidentally destroyed DNA evidence tying him to the attack. In a fast paced, 20 - minute telephone interview I recently conducted with Pirro- also a former Westchester County judge and prosecutor- explained why she fel