Sentence examples for perjury from inspiring English sources

On Friday, Burge was released from home monitoring, the conclusion of a four and a half year federal sentence – not for torture, but for perjury.

(As it happened, Burge, the notorious police torturer, himself pleaded the fifth, exercising his constitutional right against self-incrimination, during a February deposition. He was released from house arrest last month after being convicted to four and a half years on a perjury charge).

It says every officer who made a statement that contained untrue evidence may have perverted the course of justice, and some who were witnesses in court may have committed perjury.

After Murrow debates with McCarthy, his boss Bill Paley Frank Langellaaccusesses him of not correcting the senator on one point of fact: that the lawyer and State Department official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury, not treason.

As the Independent Police Complaints Commission investigates allegations of assault, perjury and misconduct in a public office during the "Battle of Orgreave" – the pivotal 1984 clash between police and pickets at the British Steel coking plant in Yorkshire – a coalition of unions, campaigners and lawyers want complaints relating to the entire strike examined.

As if to mark the new dawn, former editor Andy Coulson was last week cleared of perjury after serving time for phone hacking, saying "after four pretty testing years … my family and myself have finally had a good day".

The South Yorkshire police listed perjury, perverting the course of justice and assault.

She faces charges including obstruction of justice, making false statements to federal officials and perjury.