United States v. Oscar D. Sainz

How courts have described this case

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• a witness \cannot be forced to guess at the meaning of the question to which he must respond upon peril of perjury\
• a witness “cannot be forced to guess at the meaning of the question to which he must respond upon peril of perjury”
• “Our central task is to determine whether the jury could conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant understood the question as did the government and that, so understood, the defendant’s answer was false.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).