Now, parenthetically, I for one think that while the president misled the country and his family, the legal case of perjury against him isn't particularly strong, and most likely would never have been pursued had he not been a president, chased by a zealous prosecutor like Kenneth W. Starr.

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Would he feel the same way, if as a result of the perjury committed as to the rate of speed, that someone's rights were erased from the case by virtue of that perjury?

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"One month after these alleged tapes were made, both the mother and the alleged victim in this case signed written affidavits under penalty of perjury stating that Michael Jackson never acted inappropriately toward the victim in this case, " Newsom said.

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The managers mixed up and merged two sets of issues: allegations of perjury in the grand jury, and allegations of perjury in the Jones case.

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Meanwhile, the committee also sought to bolster its Lewinsky case by underlining the gravity of perjury.

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Public opinion is too tolerant if it regards with equanimity a president whose friends are obliged to draw careful distinctions between different kinds of perjury (as in, perjury in an unsuccessful civil case is all right).

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Now, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, when we presented our case to the Judiciary Committee last December, we invited five experienced prosecutors to examine the record of this case and to give us their views as to whether they would bring charges of perjury and obstruction of justice against the president based on that record.

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Rogan replayed parts of the president's testimony before Independent Counsel Ken Starr's grand jury on August 17 to lay out his case for impeachment Article I, which accuses Clinton of perjury.

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If that were the case here, it is my view that the alleged obstruction of justice and perjury would not be prosecuted by a responsible United States Attorney.

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This is the rationale for the common practice of prosecutors to require significant corroborating evidence before they bring a perjury case.

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And it was Tripp who helped set up Clinton for perjury--now at the core of Starr's case--by briefing a Jones lawyer about the affair on the eve of the President's testimony.

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Although it was partially sparked by the Jones case, Starr's investigation "gets to the question of obstruction of justice and perjury and suborning perjury, " said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.).

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Article Two concerns alleged perjury in the Jones case, charging that the president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony as part of his answers in the affidavit and in his deposition.

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