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Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...
Linwood v Andrews (1888) is a landmark case in English Law and a Common law precedent regarding making misleading submissions to a court. [1]The case related to the lawyer submitting to the court of a false affidavit.
Where allowed, such an endorsement gives the document the same weight as an affidavit, per 28 U.S.C. § 1746 [2] The document is called a sworn declaration or sworn statement instead of an affidavit, and the maker is called a "declarant" rather than an "affiant", but other than this difference in terminology, the two are treated identically by ...
Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the "willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry". [38]
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) have confirmed these to be “swatting” calls — fake calls meant to draw a large police presence — and there’s no known threat to any surrounding schools…
Commonwealth v. Brady, 510 Pa. 123, 507 A.2d 66 (Pa. 1986), [1] is a case decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1986 which overruled close to two centuries of decisional law in Pennsylvania and established a common law exception to the rule against hearsay.
Former president’s recent social media post exaggerates and mischaracterizes election investigations in state
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters are spreading false claims about the election in battleground Pennsylvania ahead of Tuesday's vote, escalating concerns in a state ...