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If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

— Johnnie Cochran

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

— Leonard Peltier

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

— Benigno Aquino III

There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn't share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.

— Marcia Clark

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

— Joseph de Maistre

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

— L. Neil Smith

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

— William Landay

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

— Ken Starr

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

— Ken Starr

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

— Peter Tosh