My professors use to claim that my solutions to legal issues were very novel and interesting but I have nothing on the following lawyers…  While I may not understand most of the human race, I do know it is total bull when people say that they would never do anything irrational or believe in things unreasonable.  This obviously is not the case especially in the use of novel criminal defenses such as the following:

1. Ethan Couch’s Affluenza Defense – Now if your parents do not teach you right from wrong, you can go off and kill four people and injure several others with a non-medically accepted Affluenza defense.  You can then also use mommy and daddy’s money and run off to Mexico to avoid a potential probation violation and adult jail time.  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35194696
2. The Twinkie/Depression Defense – If you are an adult like Dan White who killed a mayor and his advisor in cold blood and only want to go to jail for an 8 year sentence and serve 5 years, you can claim depression which is a real medical illness.  Unfortunately, his great lawyers have condemned people who actually have depression to ridicule.
3.  Auto-Brewery Syndrome – Some people actually have this really rare condition which causes them to convert every carbohydrate they eat into alcohol.  While this is a really popular defense for DUI lawyers, I hope that the Judges on the bench properly look at medical evidence or we are going to have lots of crazies killing people because they have free reign to drink and get away with it. Sigh – NY school teacher who is 35 just used this defense successfully.  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35206709
4. PMS – While many people suffer from PMS, myself included, even I would not murder someone for being irritating – that would mean killing almost anyone around me because at some point in time, you will irritate me.  It really is a fact that at any given time, someone is annoying.
5. Oral Sex –  While I do see this happening especially on some of the back roads in the U.S., do you really want to let these people free?  Giving someone oral sex while they are driving and then causing a car accident should not allow you a get out of jail free card.  You still helped contribute to the motor vehicular death.\
6. Following defenses were from the article – http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35206423

Current Mood: Tired and fighting off another cold but happy to be catching up on legal news.  Pretty happy that I am currently getting 65-80% of the MBE questions right and it is day 2 of studying.  If I hit the happy 71% number regularly, according to statistics I will have a passable score for almost all the UBE states.