If the plaintiff in a case perjures herself and you can openly prove it during a Civil Court Hearing, what happens?

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   Jeffrey GoldPro

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   Answered January 07, 2013 06:18. What will happen. They will look bad in front of the judge or jury. The judge is unlikely to refer it to the district attorney for prosecution. It is not an automatic win or an automatic loss. In real life, lawyers demonstrate that parties lie under oath, and it has minimal effect on the case.

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   Christine McCall

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   Answered January 07, 2013 08:14. Persons untrained in the law often mistake errors in court testimony for perjury. Perjury is where there is affirmative proof of a purposeful untruth on a material fact. Errors are of little concern in the legal system, even stupid self-serving errors that should not have happened, except that they may dictate the result of an individual case. Very few perjury cases are criminally prosecuted. Can you imagine the burden on the system after every case the losing party (the party that failed to credibly prove its case) were prosecuted for perjury!

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   Maurice N RossPro

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   Answered January 09, 2013 14:41. This depends on the facts and circumstances of your case. It is very unlikely that the plaintiff would be prosecuted for perjury, but if you have evidence demonstrating that she made false statements it might help you win the case.
   
   Note that not every lie or false statement constitutes perjury. Perjury requires proof of intent to wrongly change the outcome of a court proceeding by providing MATERIALLY false information. It is very hard to prove intent, and often the "lies" are not deemed material to the outcome of the case,

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   Rixon Rafter

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   Answered January 08, 2013 13:29. If you can catch her in a lie it MIGHT help you win you case. That's the most likely positive outcome.

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