Perjury and related offenses; requirement of corroboration · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 210.50 Perjury and related offenses; requirement of corroboration.
In any prosecution for perjury, except a prosecution based upon inconsistent statements pursuant to section 210.20, or in any prosecution for making an apparently sworn false statement, or making a punishable false written statement, falsity of a statement may not be established by the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness.
In a prosecution for perjury, making an apparently sworn false statement, or making a punishable false written statement, the statement’s falsity cannot be proved only by the uncorroborated testimony of 1 witness. ★ The exception is a perjury prosecution based on inconsistent statements under § 210.20.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.