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Re: If you plead "not guilty" and are found guilty, can you be charged with perjury?
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goober
You can plead "not guilty", since the state has to prove your guilt, it's not a lie, it's a request for a trial.
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PRECISELY, it is not that "not guilty" is a lie, but one that is protected by the Constitution, it is that "not guilty" in the context of a legal proceeding (which is the context in which it has been being discussed since the beginning of this thread) is not, in fact, a lie to begin with.
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