Using the “fat defense” at your murder trial typically does not lead to the jury absolving you of all charges.
A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man’s defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway. … Ates’ “too fat to kill” defense provided an angle to the trial that attracted attention from the news media but didn’t sway the jury of eight women and four men, who reached a verdict on their second day of deliberations after a six-week trial.
Does this man look like he’s physically capable of carrying out a heinous crime?
Yes. Indeed, it would take a different level of obesity for me to give his defense any serious consideration. I call that level “I wash myself with a rag on a stick”.
