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Innovative defense
'''Innovative defenses''' (a'''creative lawyering''') (as terms 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]]. In ''[[USA Today]]'', [[David Rosenhan]] was quoted, "We're getting to see some very, very interesting [defenses], and obviously some long shots...There are a terrific number of them." 

Innovative defenses include: 
* the [[abuse defense]]
* [[premenstrual stress syndrome]] 
* the [[biological defense]] (the "Twinkie defense")
* "[[black rage]]" 
* "[[homosexual panic]]" 
* [[urban survival syndrome]].