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It's legal to lie to the police under questioning in most circumstances, i.e. "I didn't rob that guy" if you robbed that guy. The big exceptions are falsely id
by ineptech 3y ago
It's legal to lie to the police under questioning in most circumstances, i.e. "I didn't rob that guy" if you robbed that guy. The big exceptions are falsely identifying yourself and lying while reporting a crime.
You might be thinking of 18 USC 1001 which makes it a felony to lie to a federal agent, and is extremely broad (both in terms of of what constitutes a lie and who counts as a federal agent).
- filoeleven 3y ago> lying while reporting a crime Seems to me like there ought to be some kind of 14th Amendment “equal protection” cases presented to the court about the failure of police forces to dismiss false police reports. If I filed a police report saying “X threatened me on my property” and it wasn’t true, I’d be prosecuted for a false report. Yet there are hundreds of instances of state and federal employees filing the same kind of false reports, yet nothing is done about it.