Patrick v. City of Chicago

Affirming trial judge’s refusal to dismiss case as a sanction for plaintiff’s perjury in pretrial deposition, where he falsely claimed he had never lied in an affidavit and had never spoken to a certain party, on ground that lies did not concern core issues in the litigation and were fully exposed at trial as part of rigorous attack on his credibility; trial judge did not err in admitting certificate of innocence at trial on ground it was relevant to element of favorable termination in malicious prosecution claim.