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A
defense
against a
criminal
charge
that rests on the claim that some
external
force impaired the
judgement
of the
accused
, thus diminishing their personal
responsibility
for the crime. The term originates from the
erroneous
report
ing on the
trial
of former
San Francisco
city supervisor
Dan White
, who
murder
ed mayor
George Moscone
and supervisor
Harvey Milk
on November 27,
1978
. The defense centered on White's extreme
depression
, evidence of which, they said, was the decline of his normally
healthy
diet
to one of
Twinkies
and other
junk food
s. When White was convicted of a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, the papers reported that White's
lawyers
had argued that the junk food
caused
him to behave the way he did.
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