swear falsely

The indictment says that Byard, “on or about August 2, 2022, after having been lawfully administered an oath, did feloniously and willfully swear falsely on such occasion touching any material matter or thing” in violation of Virginia law.

“If you swear falsely to Congress, just like if you swear falsely to a court or in an affidavit, that’s a crime. It’s a felony and it can carry heavy consequences,” he said.

He said an assistant prosecutor in the mid-1990s had directed him to swear falsely that he had witnessed certain crimes.

In a country where testimony is absolutely worthless—where as many men can be hired to swear falsely for ten cents apiece as you have money to buy—there is no possible way of arriving at the truth but by extorting it.

There is that same low, slimy view of human nature again, that a defendant who swears in his own behalf must swear falsely.