Editing Perjury (section)

==Notable convicted perjurers==
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*[[Jonathan Aitken]], [[United Kingdom|British]] [[politician]], was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in 1999 for perjury.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/364174.stm|title=UK Politics: Aitken's downfall complete|publisher=[[BBC]]|work=[[BBC News Online]]|date=8 June 1999|access-date=17 March 2010}}</ref>
*[[Jeffrey Archer]], [[United Kingdom|British]] [[novelist]] and [[politician]], was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment for perjury in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1424501.stm|title=Archer jailed for perjury|publisher=[[BBC]]|work=[[BBC News Online]]|date=19 July 2001|access-date=17 March 2010}}</ref>
*[[Kwame Kilpatrick]], [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] [[mayor]] was convicted of perjury in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Detroit mayor faces felony charges|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/24/kilpatrick.investigation/index.html|date=24 March 2008|access-date=17 March 2010|publisher=[[CNN]]|author=Chris Lawrence}}</ref><ref name="plea bargain">{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/309050001|title=Mayor: 'I lied under oath'|access-date=4 September 2008|archive-date=18 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518101746/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/309050001|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Marion Jones]], [[United States|American]] [[track and field]] athlete, was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment after being found guilty of two counts of perjury in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/sports/othersports/12jones.html|title=Judge Sentences Jones to 6 Months in Prison|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Lynn Zinser|date=12 January 2008|access-date=17 March 2010}}</ref>
*[[Mark Fuhrman]], [[Los Angeles Police Department]] [[detective]], entered a [[Nolo contendere|no contest]] [[plea]] to a perjury charge relating to his testimony in the [[O. J. Simpson murder case|murder trial of O. J. Simpson]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/24/briefs.pm/fuhrman/index.html | work=CNN | title=Mark Fuhrman's perjury probation ends}}</ref> This was one of the seminal occurrences of perjury by a police officer.<ref name="Slobogin">{{cite journal |url=http://www.constitution.org/lrev/slobogin_testilying.htm |journal=[[University of Colorado Law Review]] |date=Fall 1996 |title=Reform The Police: TESTILYING: POLICE PERJURY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT |first1=Christopher |last1=Slobogin |volume=67 |page=1037 |publisher=University of Colorado Law School |location=Boulder, Colorado|access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref>
*[[Alger Hiss]], American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. 
*[[Lil' Kim]], [[United States|American]] [[rapper]] was convicted of perjury in 2005 after lying to a grand jury in 2003 about a February 2001 shooting. She was sentenced to one year and one day of imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/lil-kim/20403|title=Lil' Kim Sentenced To Jail|website=[[NME]]|date=8 July 2005|access-date=17 March 2010}}</ref>
*[[Lewis Libby|Lewis "Scooter" Libby]], was convicted in 2007 of two counts of perjury in connection with the [[Plame affair]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/i_lewis_libby_jr/index.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Lewis "Scooter" Libby conviction|access-date=21 March 2010 | first=Maureen | last=Dowd}}</ref>
*[[Bernie Madoff]], the former chairman of the [[NASDAQ]] [[stock exchange]], in 2009 was found guilty of perjury in relation to [[Madoff investment scandal|investment fraud]] arising from his operating a [[Ponzi scheme]].<ref name="NPR1217">{{cite news | last =Brockman | first =Joshua | title =Q&A: Madoff Case Puts Spotlight on SEC | publisher =[[National Public Radio]] | date =17 December 2008 | url =https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98272825 | access-date =26 May 2009}}</ref>
*[[Michele Sindona]], convicted of perjury related to a bogus [[kidnapping]] in August 1979.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921970,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313035601/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921970,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 March 2007|title=Nation: Account Settled|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=7 April 1980|access-date=21 March 2010}}</ref>
*[[Tommy Sheridan]], Scottish politician, found guilty of lying on affirmation in a [[HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan|trial in 2010]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12059037|title=Tommy Sheridan found guilty of perjury|date=23 December 2010|access-date=23 December 2010|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
*[[John Waller (perjurer)|John Waller]], British highwayman, known for his death while being [[pillory|pilloried]] for perjury in 1732