There is a two thousand six supreme court case, oh no, about whether or not defendants should be able to choose their legal counsel rate. With regard to that case, antony scalia in that case says, i don't want a competent lawyer. I want the lawyer who will invent the twink defence. Bthats so disingenuous, because they use the twinky defence to get a murderer a shorter sentence. It also perpetuates some weird, half baked kind of ideas and attitudes that we have arond food. Aa, but there is this sort of bazaar thing, of like, there is a particular sub threat of that of does sugar cause more crime? And
The Twinkie Defense has become a shorthand for disingenuous legal defense strategies. But was it disingenuous? (Yes, but not in the way you think!)
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