it’s an easy bar to be able to present something as a defense, hard to win - hence the novelty defense cases (“affluenza”)
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A lot of novelty defenses which reach the public eye are reported in a way which makes them seem like fully-realized concepts or legal principles in themselves, when for the most part they’re attempts to knock out one of the essential elements of the crime (usually mens rea).
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