(Formerly Sec. 53a-157). False statement: Class A misdemeanor
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Lee v. Sandberg (1997)
Most recently applied in Chase v. Nodine's Smokehouse, Inc. (January 2019)
(1969, P.A. 828, S. 159; P.A. 93-392, S. 6; P.A. 13-144, S. 2.) History: P.A. 93-392 amended Subsecs
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person is guilty of false statement when such person (1) intentionally makes a false written statement that such person does not believe to be true with the intent to mislead a public servant in the performance of such public servant's official function, and (2) makes such statement under oath or pursuant to a form bearing notice, authorized by law, to the effect that false statements made therein are punishable.
(b) False statement is a class A misdemeanor.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.