{"id":3015,"date":"2007-09-17T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T08:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2007-09-17T08:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T08:21:34","slug":"the_truth_the_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"The truth, the whole truth, about lying in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/oregonian\/stories\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1189392913193610.xml&#038;coll=7\">Edward Walsh<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It was a rare and startling moment in any courtroom. The judge was sentencing a defendant, but directed some of his harshest comments at three witnesses who had helped prosecutors obtain the conviction.<br \/>\nOne of the witnesses &#8220;flat-out lied. He should be charged with perjury,&#8221; said Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael McShane.<br \/>\nThe judge&#8217;s outburst was unusual, but it also raised a fundamental question about the justice system: How much lying occurs in courtrooms by people who have sworn to tell the truth? <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Walsh: It was a rare and startling moment in any courtroom. The judge was sentencing a defendant, but directed some of his harshest comments at three witnesses who had helped prosecutors obtain the conviction. One of the witnesses &#8220;flat-out lied. He should be charged with perjury,&#8221; said Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael McShane. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}