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In reply to the discussion: Bar complaint filed against Trump attorneys in Arizona [View all]SunSeeker
(58,411 posts)34. You definitely don't know perjury law. It has to be a "material" fact.
You're the one who needs to "look it up." Start with 18 U.S. Code § 1621, which defines perjury as "an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true" [emphasis mine].
As any Google search of perjury law will teach you:
Only a material statement can be perjury. The false statement must be capable of influencing the proceeding that is, it must have a relationship to the subject of the proceeding. This includes a false statement that would tend to mislead or hamper an investigation. This means that a lie, even under oath, about a subject that is not material to the proceeding is not perjury. For example, falsely bragging that I never update my Facebook page at work, while testifying in a case having nothing to do with social networking at work, would not be a likely candidate for a perjury charge.
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/perjury.htm
But no, you gotta bash Bill Clinton, claiming he could have been jailed. Unfuckingbelievable.
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but this one is from 2 former Bar presidents - connected, respected people at the Bar
TomDaisy
Dec 2020
#13
Exactly. And remember, Bill Clinton was disbarred for lying about whether he had an affair.
SunSeeker
Dec 2020
#15
Believe it or not Bar presidents do things for political reasons just like other people.
former9thward
Dec 2020
#24
For once I agree with you. The state bar's decision to disbar Bill Clinton was TOTALLY political.
SunSeeker
Dec 2020
#29
Bill Clinton did not get any latitude when he was disbarred over lying about an affair. nt
SunSeeker
Dec 2020
#17
OMFG, you seriously think lying about having an affair warrants jail time???!!!
SunSeeker
Dec 2020
#27
Every lawyer who worked on these bullshit law suits needs to be taken to task for their efforts.
patphil
Dec 2020
#18