Difference between revisions 870796 and 872410 on enwiki'''Innovative defenses''' (a term of [[jurisprudence]]) are [[defense]]s, perhaps best categorized as [[justification]]s and/or [[excuse]]s, which are relatively new and untried (and thus have little [[precedent]]); via which, a [[defendant]] may argue that they should not be held [[crime|criminally]] [[liability|liable]] for [[action]]s which broke the [[law]].
ThesInnovative defenses include:
* the [[abuse defense]]
* [[premenstrual stress syndrome]]
* the [[biological defense]] (the "Twinkie defense")
* "[[black rage]]"
* "[[homosexual panic]]"
* [[urban survival syndrome]].
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