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Cicada

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11. There was no twinkies defense

Reply to Nululu (Reply #8)

Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:35 AM

Apr 2021

White’s lawyers said he was suffering from depression. As a brief aside it was said that as an indication he was depressed he was eating junk food. No one said the junk food caused his depression nor that junk food caused his actions. The Twinkie defense is an urban myth.

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