Self-study
Judge: The defendant admits noncompliance with national building codes but asks that penalties not be imposed because he was confused as to whether national or local building codes applied to the area in which he was building. ████ ██████ █████ ██ ██████████ ███ ██ ████ ███████ ████ █████████████ ████ █████ ██████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ███████ ████ █████████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ █████████████
Summary
The author concludes that the defendant’s excuse of being confused between national and local codes is not valid. Why? He was charged with breaking national codes rather than local ones.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that national codes are more lenient than local codes. If national codes are the absolute bare minimum and local codes only add on top of them, then the defendant breaking a national code would guarantee he also broke a local code. As such, claiming to be confused between the two would be a terrible excuse.
Analysis by LeviGrant
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