Sentence examples for reasonable mistakes from inspiring English sources

The initial estimates of casualties were reasonable mistakes based on known facts and brute realities.

The doctrine, designed to spare police officers the burden of defending their reasonable judgment calls in court, must be broad enough to "acknowledge that reasonable mistakes can be made," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said.

In the context of qualified immunity, for example, the "concern of the immunity inquiry is to acknowledge that reasonable mistakes can be made as to the legal constraints on particular police conduct". Officers have difficulty in assessing the amount of force that is required in a particular circumstance.

Smooth and Devlin had approached the same conclusion: the editors and their research assistants hadn't made reasonable mistakes of interpretation, but may have relied on transcriptions from the popular but unreliable Online Hip Hop Lyrics Archive, a Web site featuring lyrics assembled by fans.

In a recent decision that blessed police officers' ability to make reasonable "mistakes of law," Sotomayor was the lone dissenter, warning that the ruling could be read as "further eroding the... protection of civil liberties in a context where that protection has already been worn down" -- an apparent nod to the current national conversation around policing.

It all depends: "If the statute is genuinely ambiguous, such that overturning the officer's judgment requires hard interpretive work, then the officer has made a reasonable mistake.

Crucial to the defense case as well is making the jury believe that the officers made a reasonable mistake in thinking that Mr. Diallo's wallet was a gun.

In a concurring opinion, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg warn that while the majority interpreted Mr Darisse's mistake as a reasonable mistake, other officers in other cases should not assume that their flubs are excusable.

It was decided Carrall had made an " honest and reasonable mistake of fact".

Some jurisdictions have the all-or-nothing rule, where if you didn't make a reasonable mistake, you get no defense at all, it's handled as if you shot someone just to shoot someone.

A Lismore magistrate then found him not guilty, saying he'd made an "honest and reasonable mistake of fact". According to members of the trans community, as well as the police, cultural acceptance hasn't translated into less violence.