Tu quoque defense
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Tu quoque defense
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The tu quoque defense asserts that the authority trying a defendant has committed the same crimes of which they are accused. It is related to the legal principle of clean hands, reprisal, and "an eye for an eye". The tu quoque defense does not exist in international criminal law and has never been accepted by an international court. Tu quoque was invoked during the Nuremberg trials. In the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès argued that during the Alg
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