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The Worst Excuses in History

The excuse: White’s compulsive diet of candy bars, cupcakes, and Cokes aggravated a chemical imbalance in his brain.
Psychiatrist Martin Blinder in 1979, in testimony on what led San Francisco supervisor Dan White to kill the city’s mayor in 1979. This came to be known as the Twinkie Defense.

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