(1) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
(2) In his closing speech to the jury on Monday, prosecutor Alex Prentice said the charge of perjury was extremely serious.
(3) The special prosecutor’s office on Wednesday asked the court to issue warrants to arrest Cho and a former presidential chief of staff on suspicion of abuse of power and perjury.
(4) The other part of it is the possibility of perjury, which is punishable by law for anybody else.
(5) They cite a unanimous 1973 Supreme court case, Bronston vs US, that dealt with the perjury conviction of movie producer Samuel Bronston.
(6) Given powerful evidence against the companies, OPIC at first refused them compensation, and the Justice Department indicted two mid-level ITT operatives for perjury.
(7) The 46-year-old politician, who was a member of the Scottish parliament for eight years, was convicted of committing perjury when he convinced a libel jury in August 2006 that the Sunday tabloid had lied about his adultery and visits to a Manchester sex club.
(8) .He was convicted on five of six elements of the perjury charge.
(9) In its report , the IPCC stated that Metcalf’s note “in essence acknowledges, at least in respect of some of the plaintiffs, that there may have been perjury by officers”.
(10) Her son's godfather is Jonathan Aitken, the former Tory minister who was jailed for perjury in 1990s.
(11) Gail Sheridan, who was prosecuted but cleared of perjury last month, told scores of reporters and supporters outside the court that her husband would resume his political life after he was released.
(12) The only waiting crowds were journal ists, and there were no impassioned speeches: indeed, bizarrely for Lord Archer, free after serving half of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice, there were no speeches at all.
(13) Strathclyde police said Coulson was detained in London on Wednesday morning for questioning in connection with evidence the former News of the World editor gave during Sheridan's own trial for perjury in December 2010.
(14) In addition the Respect leader called on the director of public prosecutions to charge Shah with perjury over evidence she gave in the trial of her mother, who was found guilty of murder after poisoning an abusive partner with arsenic.
(15) Andy Coulson , David Cameron's former director of communications, has been detained by police investigating alleged perjury at the trial of the Scottish socialist politician Tommy Sheridan.
(16) In one month alone in 1999 Clifford helped broker three stories which dominated the headlines – Lord Archer's perjury, Cherie Blair's pregnancy and sexual allegations against Gary Glitter.
(17) During Sheridan's perjury trial, the accuracy of the NoW's stories about him in October and November 2004, which provoked his defamation action, came under sustained attack.
(18) But after sitting through 44 days of evidence and listening to 69 witnesses, the jury of 12 women and two men decided that Sheridan was guilty of a single charge of perjury, which was broken down into five allegations.
(19) Jonathan Aitken v the Guardian, 1997 In one of the most spectacular collapses in legal history, the former cabinet minister was imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after it emerged he had lied under oath about who had paid for a weekend stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris.
(20) The Sun faces a significant bill for court costs, to be determined at a later date, and it is possible that Mahmood could be tried for perjury.
Perjury
Definition:
(v.) False swearing.
(v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
(2) In his closing speech to the jury on Monday, prosecutor Alex Prentice said the charge of perjury was extremely serious.
(3) The special prosecutor’s office on Wednesday asked the court to issue warrants to arrest Cho and a former presidential chief of staff on suspicion of abuse of power and perjury.
(4) The other part of it is the possibility of perjury, which is punishable by law for anybody else.
(5) They cite a unanimous 1973 Supreme court case, Bronston vs US, that dealt with the perjury conviction of movie producer Samuel Bronston.
(6) Given powerful evidence against the companies, OPIC at first refused them compensation, and the Justice Department indicted two mid-level ITT operatives for perjury.
(7) The 46-year-old politician, who was a member of the Scottish parliament for eight years, was convicted of committing perjury when he convinced a libel jury in August 2006 that the Sunday tabloid had lied about his adultery and visits to a Manchester sex club.
(8) .He was convicted on five of six elements of the perjury charge.
(9) In its report , the IPCC stated that Metcalf’s note “in essence acknowledges, at least in respect of some of the plaintiffs, that there may have been perjury by officers”.
(10) Her son's godfather is Jonathan Aitken, the former Tory minister who was jailed for perjury in 1990s.
(11) Gail Sheridan, who was prosecuted but cleared of perjury last month, told scores of reporters and supporters outside the court that her husband would resume his political life after he was released.
(12) The only waiting crowds were journal ists, and there were no impassioned speeches: indeed, bizarrely for Lord Archer, free after serving half of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice, there were no speeches at all.
(13) Strathclyde police said Coulson was detained in London on Wednesday morning for questioning in connection with evidence the former News of the World editor gave during Sheridan's own trial for perjury in December 2010.
(14) In addition the Respect leader called on the director of public prosecutions to charge Shah with perjury over evidence she gave in the trial of her mother, who was found guilty of murder after poisoning an abusive partner with arsenic.
(15) Andy Coulson , David Cameron's former director of communications, has been detained by police investigating alleged perjury at the trial of the Scottish socialist politician Tommy Sheridan.
(16) In one month alone in 1999 Clifford helped broker three stories which dominated the headlines – Lord Archer's perjury, Cherie Blair's pregnancy and sexual allegations against Gary Glitter.
(17) During Sheridan's perjury trial, the accuracy of the NoW's stories about him in October and November 2004, which provoked his defamation action, came under sustained attack.
(18) But after sitting through 44 days of evidence and listening to 69 witnesses, the jury of 12 women and two men decided that Sheridan was guilty of a single charge of perjury, which was broken down into five allegations.
(19) Jonathan Aitken v the Guardian, 1997 In one of the most spectacular collapses in legal history, the former cabinet minister was imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after it emerged he had lied under oath about who had paid for a weekend stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris.
(20) The Sun faces a significant bill for court costs, to be determined at a later date, and it is possible that Mahmood could be tried for perjury.