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It is a truth universally acknowledged--at least by those in certain professions--that everyone lies. Everyone.Doctors know this. “Do you smoke?” they ask. “No,” the patient replies, when she really means, “Only when I’ve been drinking with my girlfriends who smoke, and I bum a smoke, but they only smoke Marlboro Lights.”Piano teachers know this. “Did you practice this week?” they ask. “Yes!” the student replies, when she really means, “For the forty-five minutes before I came to this lesson, and only because my mom made me.”And, of course, lawyers know this. Whether it’s clients, witnesses, opposing counsel, even (gasp) judges, everyone lies. Or omits the truth. Or shades the facts. It’s human nature; there are no Honest Abes.Nonetheless, although most people (whether they want to consciously acknowledge it or not) realize that everyone lies at least some of the time, lying is a crime in our society. So much so, that certain crimes are categorized based on the element of lying they contain. The Latin t
