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Comment by rand846633 | Hacker News Reader

WTF. In what legal systems does that work?

Difference between pleading the fifth and lying. If she for example lied in another case for serious crime to cover up her own crime that is reasonable (she could just have plead the fifth instead)

I can imagine plenty of cases where this would be reasonable. We would need more details to say if this is a bad outcome.

For example, if this was in the US, did the woman plead the fifth, or did she assert to something she knew to be false? Was she convicted of a crime and found to have knowingly concealed having committed the crime? Did this conviction come before or after her lying on the stand?

How can asserting your innocense in caught be reasonably taken as perjury? That seems like a statement that you need to expand on more than you have, what kind of hypothetical do you have in mind? Surely you don't believe that merely asserting your innoncense and later being found guilty should be treated as perjury per se?

Because they could have pled the fifth instead of providing the court with a known lie.

You assert your innocence by pleading innocent before a trial takes off. Not by obfuscating on the stand. If an option is to not comment on your innocence under oath, or you'd be lying if you did that, then don't take the stand or remember you don't have to admit to a crime. But unless there are provisions against what lies are applicable to perjury I don't understand how it wouldn't be perjury

Verdicts of the court are not findings of fact for a start.

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