what is the chewbacca defense?

Rogue

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The Chewbacca defense can be found quickly and easily using Google. Therefore, "Please explain" = search Google your damn self. ;)
 

anxi80

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The Chewbacca Defense is a satirical term for any legal strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments and thus confuse them into failing to take account of the opposing arguments and, ultimately, to reject them. It is thus a kind of logical fallacy, specifically a red herring fallacy and non sequitur similar to argumentum ad nauseam.

aka. s2ep14 of south park

edit: reference link
 

z0mb13

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so I saw this comment related to johhny cochran..

so people think cochran used a chewbacca defense in the OJ case?
 

loup garou

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I swear there was a thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but the search has officially been rendered useless.
 

Rogue

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"If the blinker fluid doesn't flow through the root kneuter valve, then you must acquit!"

Yeah, that about sums up the OJ defense. :D