Ms. Carey's family has repeatedly questioned whether the police were justified in shooting into her car, given that she was unarmed and had a child with her.
At one level, we are often justified in taking into account our particular commitments and attachments, including those to our country.
When Kearns discovered that the gig was to be the body shadow of Curlin, she justified disappearing into America's racetracks by thinking of all the down time she would have to finish her dissertation.
"The current significant difference in the prize money between men's and women's golf cannot be justified, taking into consideration the competitiveness and quality of professional women's golf worldwide," he told BBC Sport.
No doubt he was frustrated at not being able to sign his monster contract with the Dodgers, but that hardly justified retreating into almost his own little solar system.
The responsibility for identifying relevant premises, and for producing and coordinating academic work on ethics that adequately, and in a non-arbitrary manner, facilitates the translation of philosophically justified knowledge into practice, rests with theoretical researchers.
Similarly, the behaviour observed for membranes with catalytic layers of different width was justified by taking into account the variation of the oxygen partial pressure across the active zone of the membrane.
While the smartcard billing service had a larger unit cost than the traditional cash service, the difference can be considered relatively minor, and could be justified by taking into account the decrease in time and increased convenience.
As president, he has of course shown an enormous willingness to send others into combat, justified on what turned out to be false pretences.
But at the time there was no capacity for the major criminal investigation justified by such leads into food crime networks.
Arsène Wenger's decision to pick an experienced side was fully justified as they tore into Tottenham Hotspur after conceding two slightly fortuitous goals.
