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A teen was acquitted for the drunken manslaughter of four people on the grounds that he was a spoiled rich kid.
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In 1981, South Philly resident Joey Coyle stumbled upon $1.2 million that had fallen off the back of a truck. After spending 3 days trying to figure out what to do with it, he was eventually caught. He was brought to trial and then acquitted on the grounds of "temporary insanity".
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Someone tried to shoot President Jackson but the pistol misfired. He then pulled out another pistol which also misfired, at which point Jackson beat him down with his cane. The man, claiming to be a King, became one of the first people in the U.S. to be acquitted on grounds of insanity.
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Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (known for photographic studies of motion, including famous stop-motion images of horses galloping and other things), shot and killed his wife's admirer, but was acquitted on grounds of "justifiable homicide".
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In 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove 14 miles to the home of his in-laws. Upon reaching their home, Parks brutally attacked them both, killing his mother-in-law. When the case went to trial, he was acquitted on unprecedented grounds: The attacker was asleep.
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Eadweard J. Muybridge, a famous photographer who killed his wife, was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide.
