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To: Cboldt
I've been looking for cites to cases where a perjury conviction stood, with "no underlying crime." The runaway bride story (Wilbanks) came to mind. Running away isn't criminal, so how could lying about it be?

Was she convicted of perjury? Or filing a false report CLAIMING a crime?

107 posted on 02/03/2006 2:28:50 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
Was she convicted of perjury? Or filing a false report CLAIMING a crime?

I don't think she was convicted of anything. But you are right, the charge would not have been perjury. It would have been a flavor of "false statements." Libby was charged with "false statements."

And I realize that my inartful phrasing says that Wilbanks and others were convicted of perjury, naturally leading literalists to discredit the point entirely.

109 posted on 02/03/2006 2:33:11 PM PST by Cboldt
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