I once heard a veteran criminal defense lawyer say the defensive theories that could be used were limited only by the imagination of the defense attorney in question.  From the “Twinkie defense” of arguing that a defendant’s steady diet of junk food had contributed to his diminished mental capacity to blaming “affluenza” for a client’s criminal acts, defense attorneys have been known to get creative in their efforts to shift blame away from a defendant.  Of course, it helps when that defense is more plausible than the following ones.

I Wasn’t Robbing the Shop, I was Teaching Them a Lesson

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