A lawyer involved in a child-support suit against Bears linebacker Lance Briggs claims that Briggs lied under oath during a deposition taken in connection with the action.

Brittini Tribbett claims that Briggs impregnated two other women while Tribbett was expecting Briggs’ child. Briggs denied knowing one of the two pregnant women.

“I believe that he did,” said Tribbett’s lawyer, Enrico Mirabelli, “and when he said that twice under oath, it was not correct.”

(Mirabelli stopped short of using the “perjury” label. But, under the circumstances, it’s clearly what he was implying.)

Briggs’ lawyer denies that any “incorrect statements” were made during the deposition.

The reality (unfortunately) is that people make “incorrect statements” during depositions all the time. Sometimes, they believe the incorrect statements to be true. At other times, they’re simply flat-out lying. Even then, however, there aren’t sufficient resources to prosecute everyone who lies under oath.

In Briggs’ case, it’s hard to imagine that he accidentally said he didn’t know the pregnant woman, if it turns out that he impregnated her.

And what relevance does the question of whether Briggs knew the other pregnant woman have to his child-support obligations in a separate incident? Good question. But a lie under oath is a lie under oath. If, you know, he lied under oath.