"defense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That raised a central question: whether the defendants could assert a "medical necessity defense," maintaining that they broke the law because their health required it.
- The jury agreed, making this one of the rare times in American law in which the necessity defense was successfully used.
- The case is an appeal by the Clinton administration of a federal court ruling in California that adopted the medical necessity defense.
- However, the decision was later overturned on appeal, and the necessity defense was never brought before a jury.
- A medical necessity defense is available for medical cannabis cases under a law passed in 2003.
- Getting off the hook after the fact - mounting a successful "necessity defense," in lawyers' terms - isn't a perfect solution.
- What role might a tenet of Massachusetts case law, the necessity defense, have played in the verdict?
- The political necessity defense saw its demise in the case of United States v. Schoon.
- While the committee "acknowledges the terrible dilemma that Israel confronts in dealing with terrorist threats to its security," it nevertheless rebuffed the country's necessity defense.
- Twenty-six were tried on trespassing charges in November 1984, but were permitted to present a "necessity" defense, and all were acquitted.
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