During the inquiry witnesses were given immunity from incriminating themselves, but that did not cover perjury.
On the line: avoiding a perjury charge, his legacy and his Hall of Fame credentials.
Mr Rutter was convicted in a Los Angeles court of forgery, attempted grand theft and perjury.
It alleges perjury generally, but it does not allege a single perjurious statement specifically.
Not all disparities or discrepancies in testimony are necessarily appropriate subjects for perjury prosecutions.
In that statement, he delivered one or two sentences on the subject of grand jury perjury.
And he included only two counts in his presentation alleging perjury in the grand jury.
But, we were warned, these proffers were only salient examples of grand jury perjury.
And I confess myself to some confusion about what perjury Congressman Rogan is really alleging here.
If the allegations concerning perjury and obstruction of justice are proved, the President's popularity will plummet.
Members of the enterprise also bribed bank officials and committed perjury before the grand jury.
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That goes beyond those who would say: He committed perjury about sex, so what?
It is what the end result of that perjury might be that you should weigh.
They say it does not -- perjury, especially about sex -- attack the system of government.
Perjury has been the basis, as the committee knows, for the removal of several judges.
Under this theory, a president's obstruction and perjury must involve concealment of official actions.
In 1790, the first Congress, sitting in New York, passed a criminal law that banned perjury.
History and practice support the conclusion that perjury in particular is a high crime and misdemeanor.
Surely many other strategies could be developed to combat perjury and the filing of fraudulent claims.
While perjury is a felony, the overwhelming majority of eyewitness errors aren't conscious or intentional.
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Almost every week news media reports corrupt police arrested for selling drugs, taking bribes and perjury.
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Third, are obstruction of justice and perjury high Crimes and Misdemeanors under the Constitution?
Second, do the established facts constitute either obstruction of justice or perjury, or both?
Perjury about some official act may indeed be a constitutionally acceptable basis for impeachment.
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Clinton made no reference to the Monica Lewinsky sex-and-perjury investigation swirling around his administration.
They still face criminal charges of perjury and falsifying evidence in Greece relating to the accident.
The House logic seems to be that any perjury, any obstruction of justice, warrants removal.
Meanwhile, the committee also sought to bolster its Lewinsky case by underlining the gravity of perjury.
With respect to the perjury article, the House Managers failed to meet their burden as well.
In this constitutional process of securing a witness' testimony, perjury simply has no place whatever.
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