Imagine a robbery inditement that failed to indicate who or what was robbed and what property was stolen.

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This is the model that they are use -- that they are told to use to allege perjury in a criminal inditement in federal court.

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Now, there's a very simple reason why prosecutors identify the specific quotation that is alleged to be perjury and why it is included in a perjury inditement.

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If they don't quote the specific statement that's alleged to perjurious, courts will dismiss the inditement, concluding that the charge of perjury is to vague and the defendant is not able to determine what precisely he's being charged with.

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