perjury
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Larry Stewart was found not guilty of perjury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Under current state law, Californians are required to provide identification when registering to vote and must swear under penalty of perjury, a felony, that they are eligible to vote and are U.S. citizens.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
A former German transport minister faces a perjury trial related to a failed scheme to charge foreign motorists highway tolls, a debacle that cost the government hundreds of millions of euros.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The investigation is looking into whether Carroll committed perjury in connection with civil cases she brought against Trump, the news outlet quotes sources as saying.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
In 1960, The New York Times printed an advertisement titled “Heed Their Rising Voices” that attempted to raise money to defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. against perjury charges in Alabama.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
This, Denery points out, gave liars some flexibility: They could perhaps justify their perjuries with a crop of favorable outcomes—not just for their neighbors, but for themselves too.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2015
Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution.
From Time Magazine Archive
The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries.
From Time Magazine Archive
And how the sceptres witness whence they got Their briar-wood, crackling through the atmosphere’s Foul smoke, by princely perjuries, kept hot?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Every few days he encountered the bully in court, listened to his cold-blooded perjuries.
From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert
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