March
8, 2008
Friday,
March 07, 2008
Women Can Commit Perjury About
The
ANNOTICO Report
A
Married woman Lied "Under Oath" about her Affair with a
Married Men, to Protect her "Honor", and the Italian High Court ruled
she did not commit perjury. !!!!!!!!!!!! ????????
The
woman committed a "dishonorable" Offense against her
"Lover's" Wife, and a "dishonorable" Offense against her
Husband, and she then commits Perjury. What Honor/ Reputation does she
have to Protect ????
Then
certainly Everyone should LIE about ANY Misconduct to protect their Reputation ?? Forget Truth, Trust, Loyalty and
Honesty ??
March
8, 2008
A
mistress may lie under oath without committing perjury in order to protect her honour, Italian judges have ruled.
The Court of
Cassation, the highest appeal court in the country, has cleared a 48-year-old
woman who was convicted previously of giving false testimony to police.
The woman, known
only as Carla under Italian privacy laws, had denied lending her mobile phone
to her lover, Giovanni. He was convicted of abusive behaviour
after using the phone to make threatening calls to her estranged husband. His
mistress was found guilty of conspiracy.
The ruling by a
local court at Grossetto was overturned by the Court
of Cassation yesterday, appearing to strike a blow for old-fashioned,
Italian-style adultery. Judges ruled that "the fact of having a lover is a
circumstance which causes injury to a person's honour
in a family and a social context". It was, therefore, legitimate to lie
"if the intention is to conceal an extra-conjugal relationship", even
in a judicial investigation.
It
is not clear whether the ruling also applies to men with mistresses.
The judges said
that Carla, from Porto Ecole on the Tuscan coast, had
lied not only to protect her honour but also because
the revelation that she had a lover could have affected her legal
battle with her husband over their separation. "You do not lend your
mobile phone to someone unless you have a particularly close relationship with
them", the ruling said.
The Court of
Cassation, which is staffed mainly by elderly male appeal judges, has issued
several controversial judgments on sexual and social mores in the past decade.
They include the
ruling, which was rescinded after protests from Italian feminists, that a woman
could not be raped if she was wearing tight jeans because the jeans could be
removed only with her consent.
Last month the
court ruled that men who touch their genitals in public are committing a
criminal offence. Under an age-old custom Italian men
sometimes grasp their crotches as a protection against bad luck and the evil
eye, for example if a funeral procession passes by.
The judges,
however, upheld a lower court sentencing of a 42-year-old workman from
The appeal court
said that this was "an act contrary to public decency and potentially
offensive to collectively held feelings of decorum". They ordered the man
to pay a $200 (#155) fine and $1,000 costs and rejected the defence
by his lawyer that he was only "adjusting his overalls".
In recent years
courts in
Silvio Berlusconi, whom the
polls suggest will be the next Italian leader, is 71 years old.
Those same courts
can sometimes be surprisingly protective towards women who find themselves
subject to harrassment. The Court of Cassation ordered
an obsessively jealous husband not only to leave the marital home but also to
move to another town to stop him trying to control his wife's every move.
The cost of
infidelity
Adultery remains
an offence in many states in the
A 28-year-old
woman was put on trial for adultery in
Seeing the
extravagance and debauchery of his capital city, the Roman Emperor Augustus
determined to clean things up by making infidelity punishable by exile, and by
permitting fathers to kill their daughters and partners if they were caught commiting adultery. His resolve was tested when Julia, his
daughter, was caught cheating. She was exiled to Pandateria,
a barren island
Under the 1803
French Napoleonic laws, adultery was a ground for divorce for men but a woman
could cite infidelity only if her husband brought his mistress to live inside
the family home
Prenuptial
agreements now often contain clauses stipulating penalties if
a partner strays. Before her marriage to
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