HRS §702-232
Following a military order as a defense
This section gives a defense to a criminal charge if you were following a military order from your superior and did not know the order was illegal. You must have done only what the order said. This defense is narrow and only applies in that situation.
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The statute, as written — Military orders
It is an affirmative defense to a penal charge that the defendant, in engaging in the conduct or causing the result alleged, which the defendant did not know to be unlawful, did no more than execute an order of the defendant's superior in the armed services. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1993] COMMENTARY ON §702-232 This section provides an affirmative defense in the narrow case where a defendant engages in conduct because ordered to do so by the defendant's superior in the armed services. The defense obtains only when the defendant did not know the conduct to be unlawful.
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