What is the test for a conviction for perverting the course of justice in a sexual assault case?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Taylor, 648 F.2d 565 (9th Cir. 1981):
16 Under the doctrine of Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264, 269-72, 79 S.Ct. 1173, 1177-78, 3 L.Ed.2d 1217 (1959), a conviction violates the Fourteenth Amendment if it is obtained by the use of perjured testimony which the prosecution knows to be false or later discovers to be false and allows to go uncorrected.
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