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17-A M.R.S. § 102-A — Military orders
Current through First Special Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature (current through October 1, 2025)
Part of Chapter 5: Defenses and Affirmative Defenses; Justification, Maine Revised Statutes.
Full text of 17-A M.R.S. § 102-A
Statutory text current through the First Special Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature (current through October 1, 2025). This publication reproduces the statutory text of the Maine Revised Statutes from the Revisor of Statutes' official published files; it is not the official statutes of the State of Maine and has not been certified by the Secretary of State.
1. It is a defense if the person engaged in the conduct charged to constitute a crime in obedience to an order of the person's superior in the armed services that the person did not know to be unlawful.
2. If the person was reckless in failing to know the unlawful nature of such an order, the defense is unavailable in a prosecution for a crime for which recklessness suffices to establish liability.
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