Legal defence proving innocence - Crossword Clue

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5 letter answer(s) to legal defence proving innocence

ALIBI
  1. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
  2. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
  3. exonerate by means of an alibi

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Legal defence proving innocence'

"I ran out of gas," e.g.
"I was at a movie theater
"I was out of town at the
A politician has one form of defence
A politician with one excuse for failure
A politician, one giving evidence in court
A vital urge to abandon party, making excuse
Accused’s defence fails if bail oddly withheld
Accused's excuse
Accused's need
Avoid the missing vowels round? Great resolution!
Backtracking, caught in fib, I laugh and say, "I was in Pizza Express in Woking at the time”
Bail arranged by one for the defence
Bimbo regularly interrupts boxer's defence
Boxer once swinging both ways in defence
Boxer with brio occasionally providing cover story
Boxer, British one, finding reason not to charge?
Boxer, one possessing second-rate defence
Breaking bail - one's excuse?
Calf and tibia discovered to be explanation of movements
Claim one was elsewhere
Clever remark very good spread round about
Corroborator, maybe
Court story
Cover
Cover story
Cover story?
Cover, so to speak
Crosophile en ville near Toulouse? Not with this perhaps
Defence always leaky, it's Brighton's infirmity, first of all
Defence from fighter boxing in the same place
Defence of being elsewhere
Defence of Italy twice cut ball out
Defence of the absent
Defence starts to argue legal issue, blocking injunction
Defendant's excuse
Defendant's offering
Defendant's testimony, ma
Defense aid
Entering French town, I claim to have been elsewhere
Evidence found in Somali bin
Evidence of being elsewhere
Evidence that the accused could not have been guilty
Evidential statement, mostly set down, regarding certain sexual behaviour

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