I was out for a quick breakfast with my dear friend CS, the family lawyer, and we were excitedly talking of the closing on her brand spanking new, new construction home she’d be moving into this week. We talked about our kids, our hopes, and before we ended our breakfast, I asked her about perjury and how it is prosecuted.
She said it is virtually never prosecuted. The only case she’d heard of was a sheriff wanting revenge on a man who dated his daughter, and it ended badly. Otherwise, perjury goes unprosecuted. She also said perjury is a felony and has jail time associated with it. Okay, I said, but if it were prosecuted, how would it be done? She said the District Attorney, who prosecutes crimes, perjury is a crime, would take the lead in the case.
Turns out the DA had come to our home and helped me when I was fostering the 2 boys as infants. She advised me after a couple hours with A that she would end up in juvenile justice by the time she was 10. Although she said she would come help again, she never did. Fast forward 6 weeks ago, my dear friend SM, the doctor, and I were out for breakfast, and she mentioned the gossip in the neighborhood related to the gross podcast that was being passed around. She mentioned she thought the DA may have been behind it getting passed around. Apparently, she is a gossip. I do not know if any of this is true about her. I do know she was nice to me when I had the babies. You never know the way the wind blows. But hoping this recent offense wasn’t based on any truth, I did pull together a 50-page complaint of perjury and submit it to the DA.
CS had mentioned one other problem: they are all government employees, and they all work together. So it would be more likely they would warn each other and cover for each other than actually do what the law requires.
OK. So, that all being said, why would anyone being sworn in to court tell a lie?
Here’s the answer: a 1969 law removed the requirement to swear by a book, allowing individuals to simply affirm their truthfulness. In the United States, while oaths of office often involve religious books, the No Religious Test Clause prohibits requiring anyone to use one.
Here is what is provided online as to the common swearing in for a court trial.
Do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony you are about to give… shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
There are possibly hundreds of verses where it is explained the liar will not see heaven, will not be free, and that God abhors them.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape. Psalm 19:5
“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars – they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” – Revelation 21:8
“No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.” – Psalm 101:7
Perhaps the breakdown of the system has to do with who is over the court. The US court system has a luciferin influence, and that reads at 100%. The idea that lawyers are liars and bad people is possibly correct?
So it is more than a miracle, and very much God’s hand on the CPS court, along with your prayers and pumping that justice, and my complete exoneration came. Regardless of all the perjury early on, the judge, with God’s hand on him, did hear the truth and render his judgment with the truth in mind.
Happy Sunday!