I was aware of the de facto state but not the book, thank you for sharing that.

Still, I was hoping for examples.

Oh you meant like case law examples. It's a bit of reading but search for examples of case law where a person was convicted on technicalities but not violating the spirit of the law, sometimes later being over-turned. I don't have any examples and I hate to suggest this but maybe start with whatever LLM you use.