Legal Opinion
Bronston v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 10, 1973No. 71-1011PublishedCited by 455 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted the writ in this case to consider a narrow but important question in the application of the federal perjury statute, 18 U. S. C. § 1621: 1 whether a witness may be convicted of perjury for an answer, under oath, that is literally true but not responsive to the question asked and arguably misleading by negative implication.
Petitioner is the sole owner of Samuel Bronston Productions, Inc., a company that between 1958 and 1964, produced motion pictures in various European locations. For these enterprises, Bronston Productions opened bank accounts in a number of foreign countries; in…
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