Opinion ID: 487343
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Specificity of the Charge

Text: 40 The defendant next claims that the prosecution failed to specify which answers were knowingly false. The indictment quoted approximately nine pages of testimony alleged to be the materially false declarations. Pursuant to court order, the government filed a Bill of Particulars stating: 41 [T]he defendant, while under oath, did knowingly declare in part before the Grand Jury those statements set out on pages 4 through 13 which were false in the following regards: 42 a. That the only thing Bill Lewis said to Robert Daniel was, in effect, Have you hired anybody to kill the Attorney General; 43 b. That Bill Lewis did not advise Daniel of the ongoing investigation; 44 c. That Bill Lewis did not advise Daniel that he (Daniel) was being taped and to be careful. 45 The following excerpt from Defendant Lewis' testimony before the grand jury clearly indicates that he denied ever having warned Daniel of the investigation: 46 Q. Did you tell [Daniel] that he was under investigation for that, at that point? 47 A. No, sir, I did not. 48 Q. Did you tell him that the Federal people, or the Fire Marshals were looking for him? 49 A. No, I did not. 50 Q. Or that somebody was wearing a wire. 51 A. No, did not. 52 The Bill of Particulars makes clear that the testimony claimed to be perjurous is testimony that the defendant did not warn Daniel of the investigation or of the fact that someone was recording his conversations.