The sole eyewitness claims Detective Louis Scarcella
suborned perjury.
Although Monsanto has long insisted that their product is harmless to humans, newly released documents related to the lawsuit reveal that the company has long been aware of glyphosate's toxicity — and suppressed research, bribed scientists and even
suborned perjury in an attempt to deceive the public.
This puts the company's behaviour into the same moral category as
suborning perjury or intentionally putting another party into a conflict of interest.
Suborning perjury is a criminal offense, at the federal level under 18 USC 1622, and is especially bad for a law firm to do.
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).
Not exact matches
«This case is about intentional misconduct,
suborning of
perjury... the framing of innocent men,» Gertner said.