Rotadom
Satan's Plaything
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Were you dropped on your head?
They have "proof" which they don't bother to pursue, deciding to entrap him into a process crime instead? Genius!
Another genius.
Given that they never told him he was being formally interviewed or even under investigation for anything, why would he even suspect he needed to "save his ass" which a non-material misstatement would not do?
This really isn't your best one, by the way. You should start another alt, something with numbers, maybe. "666" is catchy.
. . .and the FBI agents sent to set him up know what that standard needs to be and they reported back that he did not perjure himself. A minor, immaterial misstatement from a subject of an investigation, who is not aware he is a target and has not been advised he is bring actually interviewed under penalty of perjury cannot be prosecuted.
Perjury requires intent. Being wrong is not perjury. Not remembering correctly is not perjury.
Interestingly, saying "I don't recall" dozens of times about things that strain credit that you don't recall, rather than invoking your right not to testify if it would tend to incriminate yourself as protected by the fifth amendment is actual perjury. Just hard to prosecute it.
When and if Flynn is exonerated, these nitwits will claim he "got off" on a "technicality" ignoring the fact that this entire exercise in prosecutorial misconduct was based on a misconstrued technicality and used a bastardization of a law that is never been used to prosecute anyone to curse him to plead guilty do something that he did not actually do. You cannot even ask for, mich less coerce a guilty plea if you know the person is not guilty. You also cannot accept such an elocution if you know that the person is not actually guilty.
You're talking in absolutes which doesn't make sense because you know as much as I do about what is really going to go down. Me and the other guy were talking in hypotheticals and not really even regarding this particular case, more of a "what could happen."