The talking heads are accusing me Of laying a perjury trap.
Starr's setup may be a perjury trap, but that does not necessarily mean it's unfair.
After all, there would be no better way to "criminalize" the President's improper personal behavior than to have him ambushed in a perjury trap.
Lots of prosecutors set perjury traps and public relations traps.
As a consequence, she said, investigators are able to set so-called perjury traps for detainees.
"Otherwise he's setting up a perjury trap," Mr. Scheck said.
First, he is admirably opposed to perjury traps, and therefore he didn't want to be seen as proposing a tooth for a tooth.
Putting a witness before a grand jury primarily to force false testimony is known in legal parlance as a perjury trap.
Put simply, Fish was insinuating that the subpoena was setting up a political perjury trap.