Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Dezarn
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 14, 1998No. 97-5156PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROSEN, District Judge.
This appeal calls upon us to clarify the law of this Circuit as to whether a person may be found guilty of perjury where he gives sworn testimony which, from the context of the questioning and circumstances surrounding the investigation, can reasonably be inferred to be knowingly untruthful and intentionally misleading, even though the specific question to which the response is given may itself be imprecise.
Because we believe that the crime of perjury depends not only upon the clarity of the questioning itself, but also upon the knowledge and reasonable…
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