What chance is there that the Paula Jones case was dismissed BECAUSE Wild Bill lied under oath? Remember OJ? X -----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net] On Behalf Of Petro Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 9:03 AM To: Jim Gillogly; declan@well.com Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: Clinton's fake apologies At 10:49 AM -0500 9/12/98, Jim Gillogly wrote:
IANAL (feel free to weigh in here, Unicorn), but I heard on one show or another that lying under oath is perjury only if it's material to the suit. Since the Jones case was dismissed, it was argued that even if he lied then, it wasn't material and thus wasn't perjury -- they claimed that nobody had every been convicted of perjury for lying in a case that was dismissed.