Legal Opinion
United States v. Joseph Yasak
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 1989No. 88-3474PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Joseph A. Yasak was charged in a one-count information with knowingly making a false declaration regarding a material fact while testifying under oath before a grand jury. 18 U.S.C. § 1623. 1 He moved under Fed.R.Crim.P. 12(b) to dismiss the information, claiming that, among other things, his responses to the grand jury’s questions were literally true, and thus incapable of constituting perjury; that the grand jury’s questions were “fundamentally ambiguous;” and finally, that the wording of the information improperly varied from the relevant grand jury testimony. The…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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3Cited by74 opinions
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- United States v. Susan P. RobinsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
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