Legal Opinion
United States v. Michele Farmer
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 6, 1998No. 96-5190PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
Title IV of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 provides in relevant part:
Whoever under oath ... in any proceeding before or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States knowingly makes any false material declaration ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
18 U.S.C. § 1623(a). 1 The issue in this case is whether a witness’ negative response to a prosecutor’s question on cross-examination will support the witness’ subsequent conviction under the Act, where such question was amenable to two reasonable…
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