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A sworn declaration (also called a sworn statement or a statement under penalty of perjury) is a document that recites facts pertinent to a legal proceeding.It is very similar to an affidavit but is not witnessed and sealed by an official such as a notary public.
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
The rules for perjury also apply when a person has made a statement under penalty of perjury even if the person has not been sworn or affirmed as a witness before an appropriate official. An example is the US income tax return, which, by law, must be signed as true and correct under penalty of perjury (see 26 U.S.C. § 6065).
The oath is made under penalty of perjury, a state felony that carries jail time. Under the Voting Rights Act, voters who need assistance because they are blind, disabled, or unable to read or ...
District Attorney Sharen Wilson is asking a Texas court to grant a new punishment hearing for a man who has been on death row since 2008. Tarrant prosecutors lied repeatedly, committed perjury in ...
In criminal law, police perjury, sometimes euphemistically called "testilying", [1] [2] is the act of a police officer knowingly giving false testimony. It is typically used in a criminal trial to "make the case" against defendants believed by the police to be guilty when irregularities during the suspects' arrest or search threaten to result ...
Federal law requires U.S. citizenship to vote in national elections, and would-be voters sign a form that attests under penalty of perjury that they are citizens when they register to vote.
Obstruction is a broad crime that may include acts such as perjury, making false statements to officials, witness tampering, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, and many others.