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Twinkie Defense

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Twinkie® Defense
A legal tack used by the defendant in a high-profile criminal trial in San Francisco, who claimed that his actus reus—criminal act—resulted from chemical imbalances induced by ‘junk food’ (Twinkies) and that there was no mens rea—criminal intent


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