Sentences with phrase «offering false evidence»

Comment 8 The prohibition against offering false evidence only applies if the lawyer knows that the evidence is false.

Lawyers may be offering false evidence without even knowing it.

You've offered false evidence for it.

Not exact matches

Judge Peter Lynch wrote in his 11 - page decision on Tuesday that evidence presented to a grand jury was «legally insufficient» to back up the three felony counts of offering a false instrument for filing on which Ortt was indicted.

In an editorial also published in the July 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Sawaya and Dr. Vanessa Jacoby of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco write, «The pelvic examination has held a prominent place in women's health for many decades and has come to be more of a ritual than an evidence - based practice... With the current state of evidence, clinicians who continue to offer the examination should at least be cognizant about the uncertainty of its benefits and its potential to cause harm through false - positive testing and the cascade of events it prompts.»

The claim that «ExxonMobil hates your children,» the lawyers wrote, is «false and unsubstantiated,» though the attorneys did not offer any hard evidence to support their counterclaim.

A lawyer may refuse to offer evidence, other than the testimony of a defendant in a criminal matter, that the lawyer reasonably believes is false.

Comment 9 Although paragraph (a)(3) only prohibits a lawyer from offering evidence the lawyer knows to be false, it permits the lawyer to refuse to offer testimony or other proof that the lawyer reasonably believes is false.

In its settlement offer the Crown said that it would «recommend a conditional sentence» if Delchev «would admit that his evidence up to that point in the proceeding regarding duress was false, and that his counsel knew it to be false» (Delchev, para. 11).

In settlement discussions, trial Crown had offered to recommend a conditional sentence on a guilty plea «if the appellant provided an induced statement indicating certain evidence he had given in pre-trial proceedings was false and his trial counsel knew it was false».