Sentence examples for a valid defense and from inspiring English sources

Many detainees may have a valid defense — and at any rate have committed only misdemeanors such as overstaying a visa.

The letter said they could not prove each element of the crimes that they considered charging beyond a reasonable doubt, because the mayor and those involved in the effort had relied on the advice of their lawyers, a valid defense in a criminal case, and because of ambiguities in the way the election law statutes were written.

" 'I was only testing security' is not a valid defense," since it still involves illegal computer trespassing and can cause inadvertent harm.

It is their responsibility, after all, and ignorance is not a valid defense.

On January 29 , 1968 this Court held that the Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimiantion was a valid defense to a prosecution for failure to register as a gambler and to pay the related occupational and gambling excise taxes under 26 U.S.C. ss 4401, 4411, 4412.

As for rape, a woman rarely filed charges because the law basically put her on trial as having "brought it on herself" and any prior sexual history was considered a valid defense.

Is that really a valid defense?

My friends, that is not a valid defense.

Ideological conviction is not a valid defense for perjury.

But lack of memory is not a valid defense.

Likewise, establishing that a statement is literally true, even if misleading, is also a valid defense.