Giuliani Time: He was for substantial prison terms for Perjury before he was against it

Rudy Giuliani 2007 when running for the GOP nomination on lawyer and high-level official Scooter Libby's sentencing to 30 months for Perjury & Obstruction:

"I think what the judge did today [to Scooter Libby] argues more in favor of a pardon because this is excessive punishment," Giuliani said.

Rudy Giuliani on a One-Year jail term given to a State Court Judge -- September 11, 1987 (irony no?):

The United States Attorney in Manhattan, Rudolph W. Giuliani, declared yesterday that the one-year prison sentence that a Queens judge received for perjury was ''somewhat shocking.''

''A sentence of one year seemed to me to be very lenient,'' Mr. Giuliani said, when asked to comment on the sentence imposed Wednesday on Justice Francis X. Smith, the former Queens administrative judge.

Mr. Giuliani made a similar comment earlier in the day in response to a caller's question on the Ted Brown program on WNEW-AM.

Justice Smith was convicted of committing perjury before a grand jury investigating corruption in the city, Mr. Giuliani said later, adding that ''he could have helped root out corruption'' by cooperating with the grand jury. Faced 7-Year Term...

Federal prosecutors usually refrain from commenting on sentences, particularly in state cases. But Mr. Giuliani said the sentence given to Justice Smith had sent the wrong ''signal'' regarding the investigation of corruption in the city. 'An Inappropriate Sentence'

Mr. Giuliani, who has played a major role in prosecuting corruption cases, stressed that it was a very serious crime for a judge to commit perjury. He said Justice Smith had received ''an inappropriate sentence.''

''This kind of sentence is a damaging one in the effort to uncover the corruption in the city,'' he added, ''because it is a more lenient sentence than those given to people who have pled guilty and cooperated and assisted in uprooting much of the corruption.''

I'm sure there are other instances...for example, Giuliani must have argued or briefed on the topic of perjury on many, many occasions -- and I'm rather doubtful he ever called for a lenient sentence for a non-repentant convict -- though he may have done so for non-repentant husbands.

But he wasn't running for President either.