Chuck Rosenthal Update: March 14, 2008: Blames Drugs for Forgetting What He Did With 2,500 Emails
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Per the Houston Chronicle:
Harris County’s former top prosecutor, facing a federal contempt of court citation for deleting thousands of e-mails, said in court documents Friday that medical problems have caused him to forget exactly what he did with those messages.Chuck Rosenthal said an unspecified condition made his memory unreliable about the 2,500 e-mails he’d been ordered to turn over as part of a lawsuit against the sheriff’s department. Other e-mails released as part of the suit led to Rosenthal’s resignation because of their pornographic, racist and political content.
“While I am seeking treatment to address these matters correctly, I am concerned and wish to ask the Court to take into account that my prior testimony and Declaration must be considered in this context,” Rosenthal wrote in a court request asking to amend some testimony.
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Rosenthal, who had been considered Texas’ most powerful prosecutor, had been pressured to resign by protesters and officials from his own Republican Party since the pornographic and racist e-mails were made public. Also among the e-mails were romantic ones he had sent to his secretary, with whom he acknowledged having an affair in the 1980s.
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… Rosenthal is still under threat of the contempt citation for deleting the e-mails that had been demanded as part of the lawsuit, which has since been settled.
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In a two-page filing Friday, Rosenthal said that because of his medical condition his prior statements and testimony were either incorrect or needed to be clarified. A statement from Rosenthal’s doctor was also filed Friday, under seal.
In his resignation letter, Rosenthal had said he decided to step down in part because his judgment had been affected by a combination of prescription drugs.
