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Originally Posted by Rekna
If you grant the person immunity from perjury in order to get them to testify what is to stop them from lying?
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My thoughts exactly. I was wondering about something I was calling "inadvertant perjury", but I don't know if it's that's too fine a hair to split. It's most likely an impossible test for the real world.
By the way, Libby's problem wasn't that he made a mistake but that he tried to pass off a lie as a mistake. That's what the jury believed. He was never on trial for a mistake. He was on trial for a premeditated crime. The fact that his defense was my mythical "inadvertant perjury" theory and that the jury convicted him anyway speaks volumes about the facts of the case. Sorry guys, I know you want him to be not guilty, but he was convicted.