A technical defense is one used by a defendant to seek acquittal based on the technicalities of the law.[1] It is in contrast to a political defense which seeks to use political arguments to persuade a jury to nullify. Sometimes the desire to convince a jury on political and moral grounds is so strong that political defendants will reject a potent technical defense.[2]
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- ^ SE Barkan (1980), Political Trials and Resource Mobilization: Towards an Understanding of Social Movement Litigation, Social Forces
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