50 Weirdest Legal Defenses In The Court That Actually Worked

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• AE

  @AeonWaves · 11 months ago (edited)

  Most of these examples aren&apos;t &quot;ridiculous&quot; or &quot;absurd&quot; at all. Unusual and bizarre, certainly, but nonetheless completely valid. It&apos;s also worth noting that contrary to widespread popular belief, an acquittal for reason of insanity isn&apos;t a &quot;get out of jail free card&quot; AT ALL. It generally entails an even longer forced stay in psychiatric institutions (one that is of indefinite length!), and if you&apos;ve ever spent even a few days in one of those (I have), you know that it&apos;s quite possibly WORSE than prison.<br><br>EDIT: Kudos to the video&apos;s creator for changing the title and thumbnail to make them more accurate and less clickbait-y. &quot;Weirdest&quot; is an excellent word to use here.

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• XL

  @xlsfd · 11 months ago

  Charles Guiteau, the murderer of James Garfield, tried claiming that he only shot the president and that the doctors trying to save Garfield&apos;s life actually killed him. He was somewhat right, but the judge and the jury were not convinced, with Guiteau being sentenced to death and hanged.<br><br>Furthermore, there is apparently a book out there titled &quot;How to use Courtroom Drama to win cases&quot;.

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• LA

  @Larka661 · 11 months ago

  And they say: you cant make this shit up🤣

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• TH

  @thecreamyone3606 · 11 months ago

  I remember the case with spoiled rich kid getting &nbsp;that ridiculously light sentence..... Made me furious

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• DE

  @devinjanosov · 11 months ago

  I knew the Twinkie defense would be in here.

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• 2N

  @2nicnag2 · 5 months ago

  In high school debate on renewable energy, my husband used the argument that Santa lives on the moon. Back in the late 90’s when you couldn’t use computers during rounds, other teams didn’t have any evidence to disprove Santa lives on the moon amongst the material teams had for rounds that we physically had to print and cut out to use in debate. He won a lot of rounds that way.

• TH

  @TheLawOddities · 11 months ago

  Justice may be blind, but sometimes it also has a weird sense of humor!

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• CL

  @Clifford-o7b · 11 months ago

  No.13, &nbsp;In the U K, we deal inbounds (£), &nbsp;not dollars !

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• TH

  @TheJeffharvey2626 · 9 months ago

  #16. Wouldn&apos;t a drink and a candy bar raise your blood sugar not lower it?

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• ME

  @melissaharris3890 · 1 month ago

  Identical twins have similar, but different finger prints

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• PA

  @PatrickBarlow-v8e · 11 months ago

  You remind me of watching secrets of forensics their is an episode of that sleepwalking topic you mentioned.

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• RE

  @rebasack21 · 8 months ago

  number 29, while ive never attacked anyone i have had this happen enough times that i leave my bedroom walls bare so my brain has as little as possible to warp into nightmares