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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.

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.

(A) weakens the argument. If the two codes have separate requirements, then it makes sense to get confused between the two.

(B) is backwards. If local codes are less strict, then being confused is a valid excuse. The defendant could have thought a weaker local code applied, and accidentally broken a stronger national code.

If (C) is true, then breaking a national code guarantees breaking a local one as well. As such, the defendant’s excuse falls apart, as he would have known he was breaking national code either way.

(D) runs counter to the judge’s reasoning. If ignorance of the differences between the two codes is not a good excuse, then why would this excuse be acceptable if the defendant broke local code?

(E) tells us that obeying one law does not guarantee that you are obeying another. This would slightly weaken the argument, if anything, as we want to prove that compliance with local codes does guarantee compliance with national codes.

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