Sentences with phrase «perjury after»

The legal system enhances this problem by setting out (in media etc) to make people maintain faith in the perfection of the imperfect legal system, by, for example, never charging known - to - have - perjured prosecution witnesses with perjury after appeals are upheld.

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan has been charged with perjury after a year - long investigation into his successful libel trial against the News of the World.

Luka Modric is under investigation for perjury after changing his testimony during the trial of former Dinamo Zagreb chairman Zdravko Mamic.

Not exact matches

The 67 - year - old lawyer served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2005, but resigned after he was indicted by a grand jury on five counts for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI.

Many congregations commit mass perjury Sunday after Sunday by repeating, parrot - like, and without awareness of the possible symbolic meanings, creeds and hymns containing ideas which many adults can not accept literally with intellectual honesty.

A New York police officer was arraigned on perjury charges after prosecutors said he repeatedly lied about how the police found a gun in a Brooklyn apartment.

This gets back to the Clinton situation: technically, he was guilty of perjury, and in fact was disbarred after he left office as a result of the perjury.

He was expelled in 2000 after being convicted and jailed for perjury.

Grimm resigned from office in 2015 after being indicted for tax evasion, hiring undocumented workers, and perjury under oath.

The Liberal Democrat donor who helped fund the party's general election campaign has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to perjury and obtaining a passport by deception.

Castro resigned April 8 as part of his plea deal with prosecutors, which involved wearing a wire after he was busted on perjury charges — leading to the federal bribery arrest of fellow Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson.

The seat was vacant following Roderick Wright's (D) resignation on September 22, 2014, after he was convicted in a perjury and voting fraud case.

It would also bar Lord Archer, who was ejected from the House in 2000 after being jailed for perjury in a libel case.

He was referred to as the leader of the «Celebrity Squad» after heading the investigations into Lord Archer for perjury, John Leslie for rape and a fraud investigation involving the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

He is furious that the only previous five year ban imposed on a parliamentarian was that imposed on Lord Archer after he was imprisoned for perjury in 2001.

Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro may face perjury charges after it was discovered that nine voters in last September's primary, now suspected to be his and his girlfriend's relatives, were registered to Castro's West Bronx apartment.

Scott called the special election after former Rep. Daisy Baez, a Coral Gables Democrat, resigned after pleading guilty to a perjury charge in an investigation into her residency.

Lord Archer even remained a peer after being jailed for perjury.

After six hours the former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader was charged with perjury and bailed by police.

In 1992 Jonathan Aitken enjoyed an apparently safe 23 % majority here, but in 1997 he lost his seat to Labour «s Stephen Ladyman and subsequently his liberty after being found guilty and jailed for perjury.

But in 2009, just seven months after he took office, he was indicted for perjury for lying under oath about an investigation into the nine people registered to vote using his one - bedroom apartment in the west Bronx.

In a statement Friday afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office appeared to suggest it may consider removing Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove from office, after the local prosecutor was arraigned earlier in the day on two counts of official misconduct and one count of perjury in connection with his handling of the April 2016 police shooting of Edson Thevenin on the Collar City Bridge.

This past April, Castro, now 41, had to resign his Assembly seat when it was revealed that he'd been indicted for perjury, after which he was a government informant for almost his entire tenure in the State Assembly — and helped make a bribery case against a legislative colleague.

Portrayed by New York magazine as a charismatic but delusional assemblyman, Mr. Castro led a double - life after he was indicted for perjury the summer after he won his seat in 2008.

In the LAUSD, they helped Ref Rodriguez defeat Bennett Kaiser only to have Rodriguez step down from the Board's presidency after being indicted on felony charges that included perjury.

After a comprehensive review of the officers» testimony, and taking into account all of the other independent evidence, he concluded that there is sufficient evidence to support a charge of perjury against each of the Four Officers.

In reality, perjury is a crime that occurs whenever you intentionally lie after having been sworn to tell the truth in a legal proceeding.

One year after entry of the order, VTech USA must submit a detailed compliance report, sworn under penalty of perjury, that describes how VTech USA is in compliance with each section of the order, along with other (onerous) information requirements.

Monroe Freedman's wonderful piece from 1966, on the 3 Hardest Questions for criminal defence lawyers, tried to show how hard the issues are — re perjury, cross-examination and misleading the court — and for 50 years after all that happened was that people reduced his work to «Monroe Freedman thinks lawyers should suborn perjury», which was not his point * at all * (even if he thought sometimes they should).

The safeguards of cross-examination and perjury are something, but that's really what happens after a criminal trial goes ahead, not from the fact of the complaint itself.

Depending on your point of view, you might consider the difference between a plea bargain and the sentence delivered after a successful prosecution as the penalty for this kind of «perjury».

If after learning about jury nullification you think it's a good idea: answer «yes» and you'll be rejected, but answer «no» with the intent to get on the jury to nullify and you've just committed perjury — technically a federal crime — which makes the optimal strategy once on a jury to zip it.

Shortly after the verdict, Hardin and Clark moved for a new trial based on this letter proving that the jailhouse informant committed perjury.

«It is ironic that after serving time in the county jail and being threatened with a potential life sentence, Ray McCann pleaded no contest to a charge of perjury when, in fact, he had told the truth and the charge itself was based on police fabrications,» said Michigan Innocence Clinic Director David Moran.