Innovative defense

Innovative defense

Innovative defenses (the invention of which is sometimes called "creative lawyering") are relatively new and untried defenses for having committed a criminal act. Being innovative, there is little or no precedent bearing upon them. Such defenses include:
* the abuse defense
**Battered woman defence
* premenstrual stress syndrome
* the biological defense (the "Twinkie Defense")
* "Black rage"
* urban survival syndrome.

Parodies of innovative defenses are sometimes seen in entertainment, for example the Chewbacca Defense.


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