The court's opinion turned not on guilt or innocence but on a technical point: whether the original warrant had been properly served. The justices spent forty pages on this single issue, ignoring the broader questions the case had once seemed to raise.
As used in the text, what does the word "technical" most nearly mean?
- A
highly skilled
- B
scientifically precise
- C
involving machinery
- Dcheck_circle
concerned with procedural detail
Explanation
The court focuses on a procedural detail (proper service of a warrant), so "technical" means narrowly procedural, not mechanical, skilled, or scientific.