Mind-Blowing Defense

From This Is True:

MR. POTATO HEAD, ESQ.: Attorney Sam Kepfield was defending a woman in a Hutchinson, Kan., court who said she had participated in a check forging scheme because a man had threatened to kill her dog and harm her daughter if she didn’t. To demonstrate the concept of “imminent threat” to the jury, Kepfield pulled a pin on a hand grenade and set it on the ledge in front of the jury box, asking them “Are you afraid now?” District Judge Richard Rome ordered Kepfield to remove it, and deputies took the grenade — a fake — into evidence, since unauthorized possession of any weapon in court, even fake ones, is a crime, said Reno County Sheriff’s Capt. Wayne Baughman. The jury took 15 minutes to convict Kepfield’s client. (Kansas City Star, AP) …So his defense tactic was a dud too.

… So when I want to make a point with the jury, I should use a live grenade? Got it.