I have had two judges tell me that "Everybody lies in court!" I haven't!!!!! And that's what makes me mad! When I grew up, my parents told my siblings and me that even if we did something wrong, if we told the TRUTH about what happened, we WOULDN'T get punished. But if we LIED about it, we WOULD get punished. That was a pretty easy choice...we all learned to tell the TRUTH! And we expect others to tell the TRUTH!
If judges would find their male parts and regularly throw perjurers in JAIL for perjury (especially when we can so easily PROVE it from comparing two or more SWORN statements), they would probably see a BIG drop in perjury. But when there is virtually ZERO chance you will actually face jail time for perjury, why do perjurers have to worry?
JUDGES NEED TO ENFORCE THE PERJURY PENALTIES and the OTHER "RULES" OF THE COURT!!!!!
Perjury is a hard to prove in most cases. In most cases the lawyer presents the facts of the case and the Judge or Jury decides who is more believable