Every person who willfully procures another person to commit perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and is punishable in the same manner as he would be if personally guilty of the perjury so procured.
Cal. Penal Code § 127
Perjury and Subornation of Perjury
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Imbler v. Pachtman (1976)
Most recently applied in Victor v. R.C. Bigelow, Inc. (December 2017)
Enacted 1872.
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