Re: [News] Cartoon blamed for youth's fatal beating on mom

>From: Damien Roc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Date: 12/2/2003 7:29 AM Pacific Standard Time
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>Galen Musbach wrote:
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>> The "Twinkie Defense" still lives!
>> Copping a plea for manslaughter on the basis 
>> of diminished capacity ... the sugar rush made 
>> me do it!
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>Pity there never really was a Twinkie Defense.
>
>http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm
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>

   The most obvious thing is missing:  Dan White murdered an openly gay man,
and in 1978 (even in San Francisco), that was perfectly acceptable.  It's said
that if Mayor Mosconi had been Dan White's only victim, he'd have gotten a
one-way trip to San Quentin . . .


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