The best attempt at a criminal defense ever:

“During what was to be a routine proceeding to set future court dates, [accused eBay hacker Jerome] Heckenkamp challenged the indictment against him on the grounds that it spells his name, Jerome T. Heckenkamp, in all capital letters, while he spells it with the first letter capitalized, and subsequent letters in lower case.”

26 March 2002



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