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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
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Originally Posted by punkgrrrlie10
Perjury is a crime. One and Only, just so you understand...LYING to law enforcement and the SEC is a crime in any jurisdiction in the country, especially the federal one.
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You do realize that she wasn't actually proven guilty, right? To be honest, there shouldn't have been any conviction - there wasn't enough evidence. There's a reason why all the lawyers were saying that Martha would walk.
And Pern, legal positivism is barely even a coherent position anymore.
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You obviously have no concept of how the jury system works in the country. When the jury finds you guilty, that means she was actually proven guilty. That whole presumption of innocence applies until a trial, which a jury sits and hears and then they decide whether she's guilty or not. They say "we find the defendant guilty as charged your honor" and that is considered proven guilty. Obviously there was enough evidence of the perjury charge b/c the judge didn't drop those charges yet dropped the insider trading charges for lack of evidence.