Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

DEFENSE POSTURE
"A judge ruled Tuesday that a defendant could proceed with her theory of defense, despite objections by the prosecutor. The woman, charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999, says that she couldn't have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time.
'A defendant has a right to offer a defense no matter how outlandish, silly or unbelievable one might think it will be,' the judge said.
Her lawyer noted that the decendant's pants were down when he was thrown from the car. But the Assistant State said the defense is flawed. 'His pants could have been down because he was mooning a car he was drag racing,' Platt said. 'His pants could have been down because he was urinating out of a window. His pants could have been down because he wasn't feeling well.'"
(SUN SENTINEL, unearthed by Bill Messick)