Twinkies defense
The Twinkies defense is a derisive label for an improbable
legal defense. A guy named Dan white who was a police officer who then dropped
out of the police force to run for city supervisor who started this defense.
The mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk who was the first open guy city
supervisor where not like by Dan White. The Twinkies defense is said to be
because of Dan White’s depression he had been eating lots of Twinkies and
because of that he went into a sugar buzz that caused him to not be able to
control his actions. The trial was in 1979. At the trail a man named Martin
Blinder who was a Psychiatrist testified that white was depressed. White in the
past was a well cleaned cut man who was very health. White was previously a fitness
fanatic and health food advocate but soon later started consuming large amounts
of junk food and sugar laden soft drinks. The jurors found white incapable of
the premeditation required for a murder conviction so instead the convicted
white of voluntary manslaughter. Do to this verdict public protest over the
verdict led to the white night riots. 
