Could the perjury trial of a U.S. senator be next?
Sen. Roland Burris could face that charge if he lied under oath on Jan. 8 when he didn’t fully disclose contacts he had with Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his advisers before the governor appointed him to President Obama’s former Senate seat, legal experts say. But as the clamor escalated this past week, those experts say perjury is a tricky and hard-to-prove charge and not enough is known yet to say whether a full-fledged investigation is warranted _ let alone an indictment. “Those who say this is a slam-dunk perjury case are wrong,” said Patrick M. Collins, who headed the team of federal prosecutors that sent former Gov. George Ryan to prison. “Those who say this is not a perjury case are premature.” Illinois lawmakers already have asked local prosecutors to look into possible perjury charges, and state Rep. Jack Franks, a fellow Democrat, has introduced a resolution urging the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee to expel Burris. Collins, now in private practice, successfully prosecuted several p
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