When a witness testified that he was not truthful at all but at all at the time of the alleged assault, is it a perjury?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Taylor v. Lombard, 606 F.2d 371 (2nd Cir. 1979):
Napue, supra, 360 U.S. at 269-70, 79 S.Ct. at 1177. And when truthful testimony not only would have cast doubt on the witness' credibility but also would have tended to corroborate the defendant's version of the facts, the perjury is all the more pernicious. Alcorta v. Texas, 355 U.S. 28, 31-32, 78 S.Ct. 103, 2 L.Ed.2d 9 (1957).
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