Sentence:  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 "<WSD>Nuremberg defence</WSD>." 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. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An explanation offered as a defense to criminal or wrongful behavior, claiming that one is justified in not obeying a governmental order or a domestic law because the order or law is itself unlawful.