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August 21, 2008, 16:35
David Newell
Crazy Defense
I wonder if defense attorneys reading this case will breath a sigh of relief. After all, had this gone the other way, there would've been a case holding that a defense attorney's representation falls below prevailing professional norms for failing to measure a client's penis upon request.
August 21, 2008, 17:01
Shannon Edmonds
I've heard of certain sleazy defense lawyers asking their clients to perform that type of "measurement" in exchange for legal services rendered, but never the other way around.
August 21, 2008, 17:05
R.J. MacReady
This certainly gives new meaning to the term "factual insufficiency".
August 21, 2008, 18:37
DPB
I had a defendant claim one time that he was too big to have committed the crime (forward your queries to him care of TDC for more details), but never one claiming a lack of corpus delicti.
August 22, 2008, 09:19
APorter
Back in my misdemeanor days, the court coordinator for my judge kept suggesting I ask the trial court to forfeit the weapon in these kinds of cases.
August 22, 2008, 09:36
David Newell
I'll bet he'd be happy to hear it referred to as a weapon.
October 27, 2008, 06:37
JB
Meiwes had argued that the death in 2001 of Bernd Juergen Brandes should be classified as a mercy killing and maintained that his sentence was disproportionate.


Details.
October 27, 2008, 11:03
JohnR
Vitapro?

"Soylent Green is People!" I think.
November 28, 2008, 19:11
JB
A driver in Mexico got himself into a sticky situation when he pulled over to help a woman whose pickup appeared to be broken down by the highway.


Details.
September 20, 2010, 10:33
Boyd Kennedy
A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn't have knowingly killed her, his lawyer has notified a court.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100920/ap_on_re_us/us_caffeine_defense
September 20, 2010, 12:15
Gretchen
Isn't is usually the LACK of coffee that sets people off? Frown
February 19, 2011, 13:44
Gretchen
Defendant: "My hair is too wiry and doesn't move like the person's in the surveillance video."

Jury: Not guilty!

Good hair