Nuremberg defence

English Noun en British spelling en Nuremberg defense. en Gary Komarow Individual Responsibility under International Law: The Nuremberg Principles in Domestic Legal Systems The International and Comparative Law Quarterly London British Institute of International and Comparative Law January 1980 29 1 28 10.1093/iclqaj/29.1.21 0020-5893 715077131 In United States v. Berrigan, a Federal court in Maryland laid down a legal blueprint for the treatment of war protest cases where an attempt was made to invoke the "Nuremberg defence." Father Philip Berrigan and three others stood charged with injuring the property of the United States Government, mutilating records filed in a public office of the United States, and hindering the administration of the Military Selective Service Act. en María José Falcón y Tella Peter Muckley The Positive Aspect Civil Disobedience Monographs on International Law and Human Rights 7 Leiden w:Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2004 216 https://books.google.com/books?id=hVi-bguDX9IC&pg=PA216 978-90-04-14121-6 An area in which one may indeed use the international defence, like the Nuremberg defence, though with little success, is opposition to nuclear weapons and other situations where civil disobedients set themselves against military combat. Therefore, civil disobedients' interference in the production of weapons is not criminally culpable, but rather clearly excusable as avoiding the violation of a more serious law. Although this defence has had little success so far, it is worth brandishing and counts amongst the defences preferred by civil disobedients. en Michael Head Espionage, Official Secrets and Sabotage Crimes against the State: From Treason to Terrorism Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt. Ashgate 2011 978-0-7546-7819-9 Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2016 143 https://books.google.com/books?id=sxkpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 978-0-7546-7819-9 Three nuns, Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson and Ardeth Platte, were jailed for between 30 and 41 months for attempting in 2002 a 'citizen weapons inspection', public exposure and symbolic disarmament of a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo near New Raymer, Colorado. At their trial in 2003, however, US District Judge Robert Blackburn barred the jury from hearing international law and Nuremberg defences.