(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.
Suborn
Definition:
(v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
(v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
(2) Here we have an allegation of suborning witnesses and perverting the course of justice.
(3) It is also likely that they have been suborned in T cells by the immunosuppressant drugs that are potent pseudosubstrate ligands that selectively block the signal transduction cascade.
(4) Some were alleged by the defence team to have suborned witnesses.
(5) Mr Bryant said later: "If newspapers are suborning police officers, encouraging them to think that there is money to be made from selling information, that can only be bad news for the criminal justice system."
(6) The Third World was also concerned that genuine concerns about the effects of another round of liberalisation on trade on the environment, jobs, cultural and social issues were being seen to be constantly suborned to pure economic interests.
(7) The problem of the PCC and its discredited predecessors – which turned a blind eye to evil practices from blagging to voicemail hacking – is that the big newspaper groups have run, funded and suborned it.
(8) It's shocking because it must be an offence to suborn a police officer, and the chequebook-enticed leaking from police investigations has all too often compromised them so seriously that no prosecution has been possible.
(9) It was victim to "a culture of misinformation" as orders to destroy intercepts, emails and files were simply disregarded; an intelligence community that seems neither intelligent nor a community commanding a global empire that could suborn the world's largest corporations, draw up targets for drone assassination, blackmail US Muslims into becoming spies and haul passengers off planes.
(10) He needs to tell people how this can occur and to make sure that preventing other people with similar evil or twisted intent from joining in this terrible fight and indeed suborning their families into those terrible images we saw yesterday.” Comment is being sought from Morrison.
(11) Taylor says: "He got a lot of things right – deforestation, the national lottery, the loss of privacy at the hands of intruding technology, the suborning of the proletariat with porn."