The defense asserts the teen-agers were no longer chasing him when he ran onto the highway.

The defense asserted that the killings were in self-defense.

Their story, the defense asserted in nearly two hours of legal arguments, could potentially destroy the credibility of Tyson's accuser.

Two juries acquitted him of the five dealers' murders, after the defense asserted that the police had framed him.

But the jurors seemed to say that they could not definitively decide whether, as the defense asserted, he had been repeatedly raped.

While the garments have been in police custody, the defense asserted, other sequins have fallen off.

In the Jeffries case, the defense asserted two alternative arguments from the beginning of the case.

The defenses asserted themselves early in the second half.

Affirmative defenses asserted in Virginia are called "special pleas".

The defense has asserted throughout the trial that the rabbi was killed by his own followers over money or politics.