-- 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.

The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

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.

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.

After all, Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta.

Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U. S. Senate and served his complete term of office.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

This was confirmed in the case of R v Carroll, where the police found new evidence convincingly disproving Carroll's sworn alibi two decades after he had been acquitted of murder charges in the death of Ipswich child Deidre Kennedy, and successfully prosecuted him for perjury.

* someone acquitted of a " 15 years or more sentence offence " where the acquittal was tainted ( by perjury, bribery or perversion of the course of justice ).

Some years later he had confessed to the crime, and was convicted of perjury, but was unable to be retried for the killing itself.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

One was a count of perjury in a civil deposition in Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton ( by a 205 – 229 vote ) and an article which accused Clinton of abuse of power by a 48 – 285 vote.

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.

" Kemp was among the prominent leaders who pledged to raise money in 2005 for Scooter Libby's defense when he was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in a case regarding the release of Central Intelligence Agency information.

" Clinton denied having committed perjury because, according to Clinton, the legal definition of oral sex was not encompassed by " sex " per se.

" Everybody was sworn in under oath in front of a judge with the risk of perjury and jail time if we were lying, and categorically denied there was a bounty ," Vilma said in a text message to ESPN's Ed Werder.

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.

Even in the fourteenth century when witnesses started appearing before the jury to testify, perjury by them was not made a punishable offence.

However, such fundamental truths of perjury law become muddled when discerning the materiality of a given statement and the way in which it was material to the given case.

* Former U. S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.

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

In January 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a half years.

The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U. S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.

This testimony eventually resulted in a perjury conviction.

Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice.

Sheridan was subsequently charged with and eventually found guilty of perjury.

Although charges of perjury were dismissed, the controversy put an end to Lattimore's role as a consultant of the United States State Department and eventually to his career in American academic life.

The Grand Jury found a true bill against PC Endacott for perjury on September 13 but the trial was postponed to the Michaelmas Term, eventually beginning on October 31.

One of his main targets was Titus Oates, whose increasingly extreme allegations eventually brought about his conviction for perjury in 1685.

He was eventually found guilty of contempt and conspiracy to commit perjury and was sentenced to three years in prison.