Whitewater Trials and Impeachment of a President: 1994-99

January 26, 1999, brought the news that the circuit court of appeals, ruling 2-1, had reinstated the tax evasion case against Hubbell. Starr's theory that he could bring charges based on evidence that the huge payments to Hubbell were hush money, said the court, was sound enough to justify the indictment. But it added that Starr would have to show "reasonable particular knowledge" of Hubbell's financial records before he could subpoena them for any new trial.