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To: js1138
Are you telling me that it is now a felony in America for a person being questioned by the police to assert their innocence?

No, but it was, and continues to be, a federal crime to lie to FBI agents. She did so. End of story.

22 posted on 07/16/2004 8:28:15 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Stop thinking, and end your problems. — Lao Tzu)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

If she would have just shut up she would not be in this position. She came forward with information that turned out to be a lie. If anything she should have been charged for giving a false report.


26 posted on 07/16/2004 8:32:37 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Chad Fairbanks
No, but it was, and continues to be, a federal crime to lie to FBI agents. She did so. End of story.

There are lots of federal crimes. Tell me, is it worse to lie under questioning, or worse to lie in a courtroom under oath? I'm genuinely curious about how many people have gone to jail for claiming to be innocent of an offence that was never even formally charged. And didn't the prosecution in a related case engage in a bit of lying, about the very evidence MS is going to jail for. (I admit the details of this escape me.)

46 posted on 07/16/2004 8:42:14 AM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

All federal agents.


88 posted on 07/16/2004 9:21:19 AM PDT by xone
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