Actual (reasonable) self-defense is a valid defense for the reduced charges.

When the opponent has built a valid defense, there's no use throwing your forces at enemy entrenchments.

I do not find a valid defense.

While the warning on the label may not be a bar to suits, it should act as a complete and valid defense.

There were also claims to which the company would have valid defenses.

Under English common law, proving the truth of the allegation was originally a valid defense only in civil libel cases.

Ideological conviction is not a valid defense for perjury.

Looney was accidentally shot, but I doubt if that's a valid defense.

"No valid defense of entrapment exist in any of the arrests made on that evening."

"Is insanity a valid defense, in my case?"