Usually means: Justification due to unavoidable circumstances.
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  1. Necessity defense (Kansas), Necessity defense (New York), Necessity defense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Necessity defense)

noun:  The Penal Law of the State of New York combines justification and necessity into a single article, Article 35.
noun:  The Kansas Supreme Court has ruledState v. Roeder, 300 Kan. 901, 336 P.3d 831(2014) that the necessity defense may not be used when the harm the defendant claims to be avoiding through his actions was legal, while the action undertaken to prevent it was illegal.


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