Has the Chewbacca defence ever been used in a court of law?

Answer 1

sam the chewbacca defence is not from the chess player , the asker is referring the south park chef aid

Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski
Damn it!
Chef
What?
Gerald
He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Cochran
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rest

Answer 2

Yes. Defense lawyers use it all the time.

Maybe not with a real picture of Chewbacca, but the idea (Which Cochran used for real even before South Park satirized it and gave us the name "Chewbacca Defense") is simple. If you really don't have a defense, throw so much irrelevant and confusing detail at the jury - preferably very complex scientific evidence (even if it's voodoo science) - that their heads explode.

It's actually more common as a "Chewbacca offense". DA's are far more likely than defense attorneys (because they have more money available) to try to swamp a jury with SO MUCH science that the jury thinks "WOW, all those scientists testifying against him, he MUST be guilty" and miss the point that much of the science was either irrelevant or goes to things that aren't even in dispute.

Richard

Answer 3

Gotta love those cops....They LIE when they think they can get away with it...

Criminologist Dr. Thomas O'Connor says that when DNA evidence shows "inclusion", that is, does not exonerate a client by exclusion from the DNA sample provided, "About the only thing you can do is attack the lab for its (lack of) quality assurance and proficiency testing, or use a 'Chewbacca Defense' …and try to razzle-dazzle the jury about how complex and complicated the other side's evidence or probability estimates are."[4] Forensic scientist Erin Kenneally has argued that court challenges to digital evidence frequently use the Chewbacca Defense per se, in that they present multiple alternative explanations of forensic evidence obtained from computers and internet providers to raise the reasonable doubt understood by a jury. Kenneally also presents methods that can be used to rebut a Chewbacca Defense.[5][6] Kenneally and colleague Anjali Swienton have presented this topic before the Florida State Court System and at the 2005 American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting.[7]

The term has also seen use in political commentary; Ellis Weiner wrote in The Huffington Post that Dinesh D'Souza was using the Chewbacca defense in criticism of new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, defining it as when "someone asserts his claim by saying something so patently nonsensical that the listener's brain shuts down completely."[8]

Answer 4

No attorney would ever attempt it. It would be an incredible legal blunder to do something that stupid. After all, it would get torn apart by the opposition. Chewbacca didn't live on the planet Endor with the Ewoks, he was just on the moon for the battle.

Answer 5

Of course not, The Chewbacca defense is a set of opening moves in Chess, first used by Niccolai Chewbacca in the 1912 world championship.

Answer 6

Not in a professional manner.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chewbacca+defense

Answer 7

Yes, once in a while a perp will break loose from the baliffs and get away.

Answer 8

aww man...i was hoping there'd be a definition in here. please let me know what the chewbacca defense is...i'd love to know.

Thanks Booman

Answer 9

that's awesome. i remember that

Answer 10

I DON'T CARE YOU FOOL