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2011 California Code
Penal Code
PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680]
CHAPTER 5. Perjury and Subornation of Perjury
Section 123
CA Penal Code § 123 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?
It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused did not know the materiality of the false statement made by him; or that it did not, in fact, affect the proceeding in or for which it was made. It is sufficient that it was material, and might have been used to affect such proceeding.
(Enacted 1872.)
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