What the Article on False Testimony Covers
Article 370 of the Criminal Code of Georgia protects the administration of justice from false information. Its first part covers obstruction of justice expressed in: the provision of false information or the giving of false testimony by a person to be interrogated, a witness or a victim; the giving of a false conclusion or testimony by an expert; the deliberate or negligent failure of an expert to safeguard the object of expert research; and/or the deliberate incorrect translation by an interpreter — during the investigation or in court.
This article unites the acts of several different subjects — a witness, a victim, an expert, an interpreter — and the central question of every case is always one: whether the information stated was false and whether the person knew it. In practice, such a charge often arises against the backdrop of contradictions between a witness’s successive testimonies, which is why the case rests on a detailed analysis of the evidence.