"The defendants argued during their 42-day trial that their actions were justified: that even if they had technically broken the law, they had a good reason for doing so."
Let's say that someone can't afford to buy their insulin (seriously, people are dying because of that over here). If they held up a bank to get money to buy insulin, would the " even if they had technically broken the law, they had a good reason for doing so" work as a defence?