Opinion ID: 819893
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Opportunity to Recant

Text: Thompson further argues that she was not offered an opportunity to recant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1623(d). Thompson improperly relies on a vacated opinion, United States v. Lardieri, 497 F.2d 317, vacated on rehearing by 506 F.2d 319 (3d Cir. 5 1974). We have held that “a reversal of the conviction is not required by section 1623 as a result of the prosecutor’s not having given” the witness “notification of the recantation provision in the statute.” 506 F.2d at 322. After examining the text of the statute and the congressional history, which reveal that the statute’s purpose is to facilitate perjury convictions for a deterrent effect, we concluded that there is no disclosure requirement in the statute. Id. at 323-24.