-- The FBI yesterday arrested on a perjury charge one of the members of the jury that failed to reach a verdict in the `` Freedom Rider '' bus burning trial four weeks ago.

The perjury charge against Mr. Parker carries a maximum penalty of $2,000 fine and five years imprisonment on conviction.

During the deposition for the Jones lawsuit, which was held at the White House, Clinton denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky a denial that became the basis for the impeachment charge of perjury.

Fundamentally, statements that are literally true cannot provide the basis for a perjury charge ( as they do not meet the falsehood requirement ) just as answers to truly ambiguous statements cannot constitute perjury.

Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

The perjury charge was eventually dropped by Garrison's successor Harry Connick, Sr.

Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during Clinton's impeachment ( the others were Richard Shelby of Alabama, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Slade Gorton of Washington and Fred Thompson of Tennessee ).

In 1999, Shelby was one of ten Republican senators to vote for the acquittal of President Bill Clinton on the charge of perjury when Clinton was tried in the Senate in 1999, although he voted for Clinton's conviction on the charge of obstruction of justice.

With a two-thirds majority required for conviction, only 45 senators voted for conviction on of the perjury charge and only 50 on the obstruction of justice charge.

Taking the stand, Eulenburg defended himself against Brand's charge by denying that he had ever held such events, and against Bülow's insinuation by claiming that he had never engaged in same-sex acts, which subsequently led to a perjury trial.

Nevertheless, the defense was still denied access to those documents for two more years, until the time of the final appeal to the California Supreme Court which "... threw out the 12 perjury convictions and set aside the remaining conspiracy charge, pending a hearing on Hedgecock's claim for a new trial, which was based on allegations of jury tampering.

However, in 2002 he pleaded guilty to a perjury charge for testifying that he did not lead Louima to the bathroom, and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Syropulus and other Greek writers charge Isidore with perjury because in spite of this he accepted the union.

The charge of high crimes and misdemeanors covers allegations of misconduct peculiar to officials, such as perjury of oath, abuse of authority, bribery, intimidation, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming, and refusal to obey a lawful order.

Two other impeachment articles, a second perjury charge and a charge of abuse of power, failed in the House.

With a two-thirds majority required for conviction ( i. e., 67 senators ), 50 senators ( out of 100 ) voted guilty on the obstruction charge and 45 on the perjury charge.

Five Republicans ( Amo Houghton of New York, Peter King of New York, Connie Morella of Maryland, Chris Shays of Connecticut, and Mark Souder of Indiana ) voted against the first perjury charge.

Twenty-eight Republicans voted against the second perjury charge, sending it to defeat, and eighty-one voted against the abuse of power charge.

* Jonathan Aitken and the hotel bill allegations, and subsequent conviction for perjury after his failed libel action against The Guardian, resulting in Aitken being only the third person to have to resign from the Privy Council in the 20th century.

The Senate vote fell short of the necessary 2 / 3 needed to remove him from office, voting 45-55 to remove him on obstruction of justice and 50-50 on perjury.

At an early stage in the trial however, it became apparent that he had lied under oath, and he was subsequently ( after the Major government had fallen from power ) convicted of perjury and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.

* 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

This was due to the fact that their role were not yet differentiated from those of the juror – hence false evidence or perjury by witnesses was not made a crime.

" The punishment for perjury under the common law has varied from death to banishment and has included such grotesque penalties as severing the tongue of the perjurer.

A third type of perjury entails the procurement of perjurious statements from another person.

While courts have specifically made clear certain instances which have succeeded or failed to meet the nebulous threshold for materiality, the topic remains unresolved in large part, except in certain legal areas where intent manifests itself in an abundantly clear fashion, such as with the so-called perjury trap, a specific situation in which a prosecutor calls a person to testify before a grand jury with the intent of drawing a perjurious statement from the person being questioned.

Subornation of perjury stands as a subset of American perjury laws and prohibits an individual from inducing another to commit perjury.

Then it was revealed that Livingston — who had been publicly critical of President Bill Clinton's perjury during his sexual harassment-had engaged in an extramarital affair himself, and he opted to resign from the House despite being urged to stay on by House Democratic leader Gephardt.

External records have their own problems of forgery and perjury, and are also vulnerable to being separated from the artifact and lost.

De Montfort, who had remained in England to prepare for the ruling, at once resumed the war and thus exposed himself to accusations of perjury, from which he can only be defended on the hypothesis that he had been led to hope for a genuine compromise.

On March 23, 1973, Judge Sirica read the court a letter from Watergate burglar James McCord alleging perjury had been committed in the Watergate trial, and defendants had been pressured to remain silent.

The civilians were all acquitted, and the servant was eventually convicted of perjury, whipped, and banished from the province.

In that sworn statement, the organizers indicated that " Einhorn, given a small role on the stage at Earth Day, grabbed the microphone and refused to give up the podium for thirty minutes " During Einhorn ’ s murder trial, one of the Earth Day organizing committee members, psychiatrist Donald Nathanson, took the stand and under oath testified that the committee had barred Einhorn from their discussions, considering him a nuisance .. Again, under oath and penalty of perjury, Dr. Nathanson said there was no master of ceremonies and Einhorn ’ s only role at the event had been as a liaison with poet and featured speaker Allen Ginsberg.

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Representative from Georgia and leader of the Republican Revolution of 1994, admitted in 1998 to having had an affair with a House intern while he was married to his second wife, at the same time as he was leading the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury regarding an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.

A 50-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Tampa charged the defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) with operating a racketeering enterprise from 1984 that engaged in violent activities, as well as: conspiracy within the U. S. to kill and maim persons abroad, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to PIJ, conspiracy to violate emergency economic sanctions, engaging in various acts of interstate extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice, and immigration fraud.

Neil emerged as a leading supporter of former policewoman Shirley McKie as she bid to win compensation from the Scottish Government following her acquittal from perjury charges.

The Greek word " diabolos " means " the liar " or " the one that commits perjury ", from the verb " diaballo ", which means " to throw in ", " to generate confusion ", " to divide ", or " to make someone fall ".

* Otto Kerner, Jr. ( D ), governor from 1961 to 1968 ; Stratton's successor and later a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, was convicted of 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and income-tax charges from his time as governor, and received 3 years in prison and a $ 50, 000 fine in 1973.

When the motion failed, Snowe and Collins voted to acquit, arguing that Clinton's perjury did not warrant his removal from office.

During the Monica Lewinsky scandals, Livingston was one of many Republicans who demanded President Bill Clinton's resignation, and later impeachment, for perjury.

Johnson has defended Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, finding his cover-up considerably less heinous than Bill Clinton's perjury, and Oliver North's involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair.

Clinton's defense counsel argued that Clinton's grand jury testimony had too many inconsistencies to be a clear case of perjury, that the investigation and impeachment had been tainted by partisan political bias, that the President's approval rating of more than 70 percent indicated that his ability to govern had not been impaired by the scandal, and that the Managers had ultimately presented " an unsubstantiated, circumstantial case that does not meet the constitutional standard to remove the President from office.

Currie testified in front of the grand jury responsible for the perjury investigation in relation to Clinton's statement in the Paula Jones case.