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    Perjury is lying under oath. It is important to catch witnesses who willingly lie under oath, as without perjury laws no crimes could be solved and innocent people may be wrongly imprisoned. The consequences of perjury include imprisonment, fines, and in some states, death if the perjury leads to the execution of an innocent person. In a chapter of the novel "The Sweet Hereafter", a character commits perjury by lying in their testimony about a bus crash.

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    Perjury is lying under oath. It is important to catch witnesses who willingly lie under oath, as without perjury laws no crimes could be solved and innocent people may be wrongly imprisoned. The consequences of perjury include imprisonment, fines, and in some states, death if the perjury leads to the execution of an innocent person. In a chapter of the novel "The Sweet Hereafter", a character commits perjury by lying in their testimony about a bus crash.

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    Perjury is lying under oath. It is important to catch witnesses who willingly lie under oath, as without perjury laws no crimes could be solved and innocent people may be wrongly imprisoned. The consequences of perjury include imprisonment, fines, and in some states, death if the perjury leads to the execution of an innocent person. In a chapter of the novel "The Sweet Hereafter", a character commits perjury by lying in their testimony about a bus crash.

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    8.

    04 Discussion: It's all in the


    details

    What is Perjury?

    Perjury is a criminal offense of lying under oath

    The Importance of Perjury

    Perjury is important to catch the witnesses that lie willingly under


    oath.
    If perjury didn't exist, no crimes would be solved and the court
    systems wouldn't be as good as it is today.
    People would be blaming people that they want to throw under the
    bus and tons of innocent people would be sent to prison and the
    guilty would have no punishment. Which is why there's perjury. So
    to avoid that from ever happening.

    Consequences for Perjury

    The consequences of perjury are:


    Imprisonment
    Fines
    Death, if the perjury lead to the execution of an innocent person
    (only in some states)
    Used in the text

    In Chapter 4 of The Sweet Hereafter", Nichole Burnell testifies on


    the stand about the bus crash and how it went down in her point of
    view. Turns out it was just a lie, and thus, is considered perjury.

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