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== Real Life ==
* By today's standards Bartholomew Chassenee's case facing off against the catholic church to defend rats would have ''definitely'' counted. His arguments would have been reasonable if his clients were human, and so, out of fairness, the court allowed ordered certain accommodations. This went on until the court was so fed up with Chassenee's defense, they threw out the case [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALWLELLlv6E].
* [[Moral Guardians|Jack Thompson]], aside from his video game-related shenanigans, is also someone who once introduced dozens of pages of gay porn into evidence—pages which were then put directly into the evidence database. Subverted in that he actually got disbarred for it.
* [[wikipedia:Temple Lea Houston|Temple Lea Houston]] fired two pistols into the ceiling, scaring the jury and causing them to flee the courtroom. He said to the judge that he did it to "prove his client's fear of the victim's 'incredible speed' of gunfire". [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|He then successfully argued for a mistrial, as the jury wasn't sequestered.]]
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