Perjury trap
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title:
Perjury trap
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In United States criminal law, a perjury trap is a form of prosecutorial strategy, which is sometimes claimed to be prosecutorial misconduct in which a prosecutor calls a witness to testify, typically before a grand jury, with the intent of coercing the witness into perjury. Courts on state and federal levels almost never recognize such as inappropriate, as doing so would in essence, condone perjury. As an example, suppose that a person committed a crime for which they were never prosecuted, but
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Prosecutorial strategy in which a witness is coerced into lying under oath
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury_trap
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2022-12-10T22:08:15Z
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