{"id":87,"date":"2008-01-21T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/2008\/01\/21\/liar-liar-pants-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T08:23:18","slug":"liar-liar-pants-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/liar-liar-pants-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar Liar Pants on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Reuters<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSN1662392120080116\">Marion Jones Tells Oprah She was Tired of the Lies<\/a>. &#8220;Disgraced Olympian Marion Jones [was] stripped of her medals and fac[es] six months in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her crime?  Lying to prosecutors about her steroid use.  Should have just asserted her Fifth Amendment right against <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/constitution\/amendment-05\/07-self-incrimination.html\">self-incrimination<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>Perjury is a B.S. offense.  Sure, we don&#8217;t want people lying under oath to prosecutors or in court, but these prosecutions seem more like political stunts than true crackdowns on criminals.  Doesn&#8217;t make me feel any safer knowing that Martha Stewart or Marion Jones is behind bars.  I&#8217;m pretty sure that if politicians were prosecuted for lying to the American public, Congress would work pretty hard to make the crime of perjury disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: Marion Jones Tells Oprah She was Tired of the Lies. &#8220;Disgraced Olympian Marion Jones [was] stripped of her medals and fac[es] six months in prison. Her crime? Lying to prosecutors about her steroid use. Should have just asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Perjury is a B.S. offense. Sure, we don&#8217;t want people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[117,135,139],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}