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You should... claim Neal is a twinkie.
Now that would help your case.
*Runs*
"Blinder offered the junk food addiction as evidence of the depression, rather than a cause for the crime. This distinction failed to make it into the media accounts of the trial, however. "
"The defense worked.... Many residents of San Francisco were outraged and riots broke out in the city."
"In 1982, California voters approved a proposition to abolish the "diminished capacity" defense."
Soo, becuase the media inaccurately report the legal argument used, a bunch of dumbasses rioted and then abolished laws, on the grounds of their false, presumably unresearched, beliefs.
So people genuinely lacking the mental competence to be in real control of their actions have ever since been tried in the same way as people who had full handle on what they were doing. Because everyone took what they read in the papers at face value?
*Isn't really surprised*