Idiot defense
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idiot-defense-207-1948339
title:
Idiot defense
text:
"The idiot defense" is a satirical term for a legal strategy where a defendant claims innocence by virtue of having been ignorant of facts of which the defendant would normally be expected to be aware. Other terms used for this tactic include "dumb CEO defense", "dummy defense", "ostrich defense", "Ken Lay defense", and "Sergeant Schultz defense". The first known instance of the idiot defense was by John Henry Stafford, a lawyer in Jackson, Tennessee who was also known as Yankee John. He used it
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Satirical term for legal strategy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_defense
date created:
2005-04-01T00:05:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:46:22Z
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