Sentence examples for valid defenses from inspiring English sources

Inadvertence and bad memory are valid defenses in false-statement cases, but could Kushner seriously contend that a meeting set up with an e-mail heading "Russian – Clinton – private and confidential" simply slipped his mind?

"Whether petitioner may be entitled to immunity under the common law, and whether he may have other valid defenses to the grave charges against him," Justice Stevens wrote, "are matters to be addressed in the first instance" by the trial court.

Fraser added that any new "cyberbullying" legislation should include a proper defense, such as fair comment and the defense of truth — both valid defenses in civil defamation law.

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.

When the opponent has built a valid defense, there's no use throwing your forces at enemy entrenchments.

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

Such claims add up to a quite valid defense of a certain literary genre, but the genre in question isn't memoir — it's the novel.