| Judge Dismisses Perjury, Other Charges in "Caged Kids" Case | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:46:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | CLEVELAND (AP) -- Some of the criminal charges filed against a couple accused of locking some of their adopted special needs children in cages were dismissed Wednesday. Huron County Common Pleas Judge Earl R. McGimpsey threw out a felony perjury charge and four misdemeanor falsification charges, saying in a written ruling that the crimes were alleged to have taken place too long ago. A misdemeanor count of falsification and several counts of felony child endangering remained against Michael and Sharen Gravelle, who are scheduled to go on trial Nov. 14. In a February indictment, the Gravelles were accused of lying under oath, perjury and falsifying documents used to adopt the children and receive government subsidies. Prosecutors claimed the couple, between 1997 and 2005, lied to government officials and on sworn statements given in relation to the inspection of the Gravelles' home by social workers for the couple's first adoption.... | |
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| | | Perjury claims in McCabe case warrant inquiry | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:47:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | IT IS a fundamental principle of our legal system that lawyers owe their first duty to the courts. Justice cannot be served if lawyers mislead the court or allow their clients to mislead the court. Revelations in today's Sunday Age show that inquiries by the prestigious national law firm Clayton Utz found that two of its senior lawyers had engaged in serious professional misconduct ? and possibly perjury in one case ? in their defence of a tobacco company that was being sued by lung cancer sufferer Rolah McCabe. These findings were not made by an emotional McCabe family or its lawyers. These are the well-reasoned and researched findings of a group of senior Clayton Utz partners acting at the request of the chief executive of Clayton Utz, one of the top law firms in the country.... | |
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| | | Former Rampart cop pleads in perjury | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:46:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - The disgraced former Los Angeles police officer who sparked the Rampart corruption scandal pleaded no contest Tuesday to perjury. Rafael Perez entered a plea to a felony charge in Superior Court. Under a plea bargain, he will be sentenced on Nov. 30 to three years probation and 300 hours of community service, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. Perez was accused of lying on his application for a driver's license and was arrested in July by investigators for the state Department of Motor Vehicles. His lawyer, Winston McKesson, has said that Perez intended no wrongdoing and tried to change his driver's license because he had legally changed his name to Ray Lopez. A cal to McKesson seeking comment was not immediately returned Tuesday.... | |
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| | | Ex-investigators arraigned on cover-up charges | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:45:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | PETERSBURG, Ind. (AP) - Two former state police investigators were arraigned Friday along with three other people on charges they committed perjury by covering up evidence in a 1988 slaying.The former investigators, James Verle and Larry Eck, appeared in Pike Circuit Court to face felony perjury charges. A judge entered not guilty pleas on their behalf and for three others, Charity Delaney, Steven Hill and Billy Corlett.The perjury charges stem from grand jury interviews in September and this month in which Eck and Verle denied being told then-Pike County Prosecutor Mark Sullivan was a suspect in the unsolved June 1988 murder of Rick Deffendall at his home near Oakland City.All five people were indicted Thursday on felony perjury charges related to that case. .... | |
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| | | Kanishka bomber to face perjury trial | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:45:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Inderjit Singh Reyat, who is serving a sentence for his role in the 1985 Air India plane bombing, is scheduled to go to trial next year for perjury. The trial is in connection with his testimony in the unsuccessful prosecution case. The British Columbia Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm said the trial will commence on May 7, as Reyat watched the proceedings through a video-link from jail. Reyat is charged with lying 27 times during his evidence in September 2003 as a Crown witness against accused Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted on all counts last year. .... | |
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| | | Secret Papers Could Halt CIA Case | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:45:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff intends to load up his criminal trial with information about nine national security matters, the names of foreign leaders and details about various terrorist groups, according to court filings in the Valerie Plame leak case. The papers filed this week hint at what has been taking place behind closed doors as Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald tries to limit the amount of classified data that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is permitted to use at his trial, scheduled for January. .... | |
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| | | Rell's top aide won't face perjury charges | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 6:45:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Gov. M. Jodi Rell's chief of staff will not be charged with perjury even though some Democratic legislators believe she misled them when she testified in May that she hadn't read a memo on ethics rules that she personally edited. M. Lisa Moody's testimony came during a legislative inquiry into Moody's use of her state Capitol office to distribute invitations to a Rell campaign fundraiser. Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane informed the co-chairmen of the legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee this week there was no evidence to support Moody's criminal prosecution. In a letter to lawmakers Monday, Kane said he is closing his investigation. The letter was publicly released Tuesday. State Sen. Edward Meyer, vice chairman of the GAE Committee, said he believes the standard for perjury is very high and that current laws regarding interference with the legislature and contempt of the legislature are vague and need to be addressed when the legislature reconvenes next year.... | |
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| | | Sonia perjury case in Allahabad High Court | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 12:46:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Sonia perjury case came up for further hearing on September 6, 2006. As petitioner in person, the former Union Law Minister, Dr Subramanian Swamy was on his feet when the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court of Justice J. Bhalla and Justice D.V. Singh re-convened to a jam-packed presence of advocates to hear the arguments. Dr Swamys case is that the Rae Bareli Returning Officer (RO) should have acted on his complaint alleging that Ms. Sonia Gandhi had made a false declaration on affidavit as a Lok Sabha candidate in 2004 that she was highly educated with a degree from the prestigious University of Cambridge. Dr Swamy had received letters from the University denying that there was ever a student enrolled by the name of Antonia Maino, or Sonia Maino or Sonia Gandhi. Earlier, in 2002, Ms Gandhi had made the same claim in her signed declaration in the Lok Sabhas Whos Who but wriggled out of being hauled before the Lok Sabhas Ethics Committee by stating that it was a typing error.... | |
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| | | lester Munson: Ralph Sampson could face jail time | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:45:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | With eight children from five women, former basketball player Ralph Sampson must have known there would be difficulties in their care and feeding. But the difficulties in supporting his children now include the possibility of jail time. In a trial scheduled to beginSept. 7 in Richmond, the former University of Virginia star faces federal charges of perjury, mail fraud, making a false claim and making a false statement. Charges of non-support and violating his probation are pending against him. Although federal charges are rare in child-support cases, federal prosecutors have long pursued Sampson, perhaps to make a high-profile example of him. They began investigating him in 2003, when they discovered that he was $51,000 behind in payments for two teenage daughters.... | |
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| | | Government considering perjury charge for Porter | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:45:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | The attorney general is considering a request to pursue perjury charges against Dame Shirley Porter, the disgraced former leader of Westminster council. In a letter today to Lord Goldsmith, Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, claimed that Dame Shirley had concealed her true wealth to the courts to avoid paying up to £43m in surcharges to the council for her part in the homes-for-votes scandal in the late 1980s. She was ordered to pay the money, including interest, by a district auditor who uncovered a gerrymandering scandal at the council that involved selling off council homes to prospective Tory voters in politically vulnerable wards. .... | |
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