To: lepton
Doesn't perjury require intent, which is why there's also making false statements, so they don't have to prove intent?
2,905 posted on
10/28/2005 12:49:58 PM PDT by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: mewzilla
"Perjury" certainly requires intent. As I recall, so does making false statements.
2,950 posted on
10/28/2005 1:00:17 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: mewzilla
Perjury requires a statement under oath as to a material issue. Query: If there's no underlying crime, material to what? Intent is a necessary element as to almost every crime.
I believe that "false statements" do not have to be under oath, just made to some kind of official like an FBI agent.
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