Law Practice
Jan. 28, 2000
But My Dog Made Me Do It
FORUM In our litigious society, creative legal defenses are becoming standard operating procedure. Page 6. By Marianne Means During law school, my favorite story was the tale of a defendant who had killed his parents. When he came to trial, he threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.
That silly story was, I assumed, apocryphal, meant merely to amuse credulous students.
But nowa...
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