(US, legal) A legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that they were not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.
(US, legal) A legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that they were not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.
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(US, _, law, by extension) An explanation offered as a defense to criminal or wrongful behavior, claiming that one is justified in not obeying a governmental order or a domestic law because the order or law is itself unlawful.
(ethics, international law, idiomatic) An explanation offered as an excuse for behaving in a criminal or wrongful manner, claiming that one acted in this way because one was ordered by others (particularly superiors) to do so.
(UK, informal, legal) gay panic defense.
(UK, legal, historical) A false assertion of being married to another person.
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.