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Caught in wind, setter's defective hearing (8)

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I believe the answer is:

mistrial

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'hearing' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Defective hearing ' mean 'mistrial' so perhaps 'hearing' could also mean 'mistrial')

'caught in wind setter's defective' is the wordplay.
'caught in' is an insertion indicator.
'wind' becomes 'mistral' (mistral is a kind of wind).
'setter's defective' becomes 'i' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'mistral' placed around 'i' is 'MISTRIAL'.

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(Other definitions for mistrial that I've seen before include "Invalid court procedure" , "Defective hearing" , "Court proceedings gone wrong" , "Court procedure made void by error" , "Court case invalidated by procedural error" .)

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