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How can asserting your innocense in caught be reasonably taken as perjury? That seems like a statement that you need to expand on more than you have, what kind
by SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
How can asserting your innocense in caught be reasonably taken as perjury? That seems like a statement that you need to expand on more than you have, what kind of hypothetical do you have in mind? Surely you don't believe that merely asserting your innoncense and later being found guilty should be treated as perjury per se?
- hoten 3y agoBecause they could have pled the fifth instead of providing the court with a known lie. You assert your innocence by pleading innocent before a trial takes off. Not by obfuscating on the stand. If an option is to not comment on your innocence under oath, or you'd be lying if you did that, then don't take the stand or remember you don't have to admit to a crime. But unless there are provisions against what lies are applicable to perjury I don't understand how it wouldn't be perjury
- SuperNinKenDo 3y agoVerdicts of the court are not findings of fact for a start.