Yasser Anaya v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “the policy underlying the necessity defense is the promotion of greater values at the expense of lesser values”
• recognizing that “the policy underlying the necessity defense is the promotion of greater values at the expense of lesser values.”
• recognizing that \the policy underlying the necessity defense is the promotion of greater values at the expense of lesser values.\
• recognizing that “the policy underlying the necessity defense is the promotion of greater values at the expense of lesser values”
• holding that defendant could not establish as a matter of law that his spray-painting of government property could be reasonably anticipated to lead to the termination of a missile program and the aversion of nuclear war and world starvation
• finding that defendant’s belief “differ[ed] little from many whose passionate beliefs are rejected by the will of the majority legitimately expressed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).