Chewbacca defense
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chewbacca-defense-208-7040239
title:
Chewbacca defense
text:
In a jury trial, the Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy in which a criminal defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury rather than refute the case of the prosecutor. It is an intentional distraction or obfuscation. As a Chewbacca defense distracts and misleads, it is an example of a red herring. It is also an example of an irrelevant conclusion, a type of informal fallacy in which one making an argument fails to address the issue in question. Often an opposing counsel can legally object to such
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encyclopedia
description:
Nonsensical diversionary legal defense strategy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
date created:
2003-09-29T05:40:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T09:47:58Z
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