Word: alibiing
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...serious mental condition and suicidal instincts. As her children were a very piece of her own self, the ending of their lives in a certain way successfully repeats Smith's reported suicide attempts. Such an explanation does not offset the horror of her deeds, but may give a psychological alibi for monstrous and unthinkable infanticide. Her lawyers could argue that she loved her children as she loved herself...
According to Sullivan, the cause helped establish many legal precedents. It also was important to the development of "effective definitions of 'reasonable doubt,' 'alibi,' 'murder,' and 'manslaughter,'" Sullivan wrote...
Clinton's bold response actually carried little risk, at least politically. By dispatching thousands of troops and hundreds of planes, the President made clear the U.S. intention to defend Kuwait's sovereignty by whatever means necessary. To charges that he overreacted, he had a sturdy alibi; the mixed messages sent by the Bush Administration in 1990 were widely blamed for encouraging Saddam to overrun Kuwait without fear of reprisal. For once Congress was united in support; Clinton phoned Bush on Monday and got his blessing as well. Even Saddam's onetime allies, like Jordan and the P.L.O., supported the President...
...Simpson's alibi just got weaker. A coroner's report released earlier had indicated that Nicole Brown Simpson was alive and on the phone at 11 p.m. -- good news for O.J., who has witnesses to verify he was headed to the airport only shortly after 11 p.m. But court papers released today indicate that Nicole Simpson made that phone call...
...during its peculiar second week. The prosecution had opened with the testimony of limousine driver Allan Park and Simpson houseguest Brian ("Kato") Kaelin. Park, whose ferrying of Simpson to the Los Angeles airport at around 11:15 on the night of the murder had been part of Simpson's alibi, reported that O.J. did not answer his intercom until around 10:56. Shortly before that, Park added, he had glimpsed a 6-ft. 200-lb. African-American figure rushing across the lawn into the house. Kaelin, an aspiring actor who had boarded first at the home of Nicole Simpson...