The Original Chewbacca Defense?

[PaladinswordSaurfang]

IT DOES NOT MAKE SENTH!!!!

[rayrayrayray023]

@2:43 "...your names will be struck from the jury list of cook county."

Jury: "WHOOOO-HOOO!!"

[NFCBradyfan12]

I did not understand a damn thing.

[MrN5004]

look at the little monkey! Look at the little monkey!

[marmalademan07]

Says he won't waste time yet explains a story about when he was born. Scumbag lawyer.

[AlexDino001]

Look at my watch, ok that does not make sense! If my watch doesn't make sense then you must acquit!

[321Tails321]

That trial did not male sense and sense it did not make sense you must ACQUIT!!! Thank you

[existenceisrelative]

Look, look at the silly monkey. 

[newzkidz444]

@WarThug13 I was watching that movie this morning

[Knuc253SubZ]

Damn I never knew Walt Disney was such a good attorney

[galti111]

Are juries not sequestered without access to media outlets for the duration of the trial? IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!

[WarThug13]

2:24 my father gave me this watch when I was a kid, he hid this uncomfortable hunk a metal up his ass 2 years

[IfIonliHadAName]

The fuck just happened?

[FuckNewbs]

If chewbacca lives on endor you must acquit.

[Lina0David]

look at the silly monkey

[xicechill]

he mad



[hammr25]

This is just a really bad movie. It's got nothing to do with the Chewbacca defense.

[auritone]

@hammr25 I does actually. Move focus away from facts and on to something completely irrelevant. That is the essence of the Chewbacca defence and done very well here. :)

[Bewt]

Haha! What a horrible clip. If you tried handing out newspapers like that in a real court, it would cause a mistrial. Also, if you started talking about your watch for no reason there'd be "OBJECTIONS" flying everywhere.

[blahblibidyblahblah]

@Bewt 1. only if they're sequestered.

2. you can talk about whatever you want during closing arguments

[emofrenchkid21]

@blahblibidyblahblah not whatever. You can definitely object to some inappropriate speculation or evidence that was never presented. 

[AUStudentKJH]

Look at the monkey! Look at the silly monkey!

*mind blown*

[PaleRider612]

Woah Casey Anthony!  haha

[kaimaiiti]

I hope he got the chair!

[j0sewar911]

I am seriously going to win a debate with this one day...

[spyroninja]

LOL WTF IS THIS GUY TALKING ABOUT.

[carrotbananajuice]

hahahaha this is hilarious

[asdfghjkl2222]

He has a point, thats a nice watch!

[sentenal01]

2:52

Deal with it.

[Shadowydarkprince]

i dont get it. D:

[robair9911]

is that the twillight zone host?

[NEWCARNET]

He keeps addressing the jury as just "gentlemen", repeatedly ignoring the old crone in the front row who resembles a prototypical Jessica Fletcher...maybe he mistook her for the court tea lady, or maybe back in the 50s only bald men and cross-dressers were allowed to perform jury service

[Justshutup14]

I love it!

[demovidtest]

Best way to convince someone; make them feel like the decision you want them to make has been taken away from them, thereby disrespecting them, thereby requiring them to make that decision in order to reclaim their dignity which was "lost". With a dash of reverse psychology.

[lukass64]

Here are some Newspaper clippings. Now think about that for one minute. This does not make sense! Why am I talking about Newspaper clippings when a man's life is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why! I don't know! It doesn't make sense! Look at my watch! Look at my silly watch!

[ShindaDesu]

@lukass64 -head explodes-

[OverruledDood]

unfortunatley, a lot of jurors would fall for that shit probably.

[GozetaGX]

OBJECTION!!...lol XD

[redart912]

does anyone know what the name of the film is?

Thank You

[doom032]

@redart912 It says so in the description.

[redart912]

@doom032 ah yes I see it. lol Thanks for pointing that out to me

[redcar666]

Truley genius. He might as well explained to the jury how a telephone works. Chewbaca ftw

[dxhtz]

I love celluloid..+What a performance!?!

[pyro251086]

That does NOT MAKE SENSE!!!

[maddog58steelers]

@pyro251086 Why am I talking about Chewbacca while defending a major record label? That does not make sense.

[OPaivio]

Great scene, though South Parks Chewbacca defense is obviously a reference to the OJ trial.

[briotera]

OBJECTION!

*epic music

[tkeely4777]

Mesmerizing performance!

[djdakki]

It's just a movie, but if the character is a great manipulator.

[BlueRaven89]

Gentlemen.. Fine fine gentlemen of the jury. Gentlemen I am glad you are acting so gentlemanly like while I change the subject to what the press does not want to talk about. Now gentlemen, why does an eight foot tall wookie live on the planet Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense, what I am saying does not make sense. Think about it, or don't think about it like the media wants you to. Go ahead and find the defendant guilty like the media wants you to, I dare you.

[oO0tunes0Oo]

Why would he refer to the jury as gentlemen (4 times!) when clearly there's also a woman sitting there?

[ColdNorthProductions]

@oO0tunes0Oo man and thus gentlemen doesn't have to refer to a male.

[lygophile]

"of which i shall use as little as possible"

well, you already used quite a few announcing you won't...

[theblackfalcon6969]

lawyer- this does not make sense!

[yohank2004]

this is amazing

such a good mind fuck on the jury

[PrivateIrishmayne]

If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must equit.

[Momentum139]

This does not make ANY sense.

[gunfighter964]

@Momentum139 yes it does its brilliant. he is playing on the sympathy and stupidty of the jury. this is why the jury system is so bad. 12 schmucks with no knowledge of the law listening to liars, i mean lawers talk about things they arn't smart enough to understand

[phocjame]

@Momentum139 "Look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey."

[Maho911]

@phocjame *Head explodes.*

[agrotis79]

It's not permitted to hand jury clips from newspapers...it is not in evidence.

[11juan11]

(Jury after the judge talks)"Yeah no more jury duty!!!!!"

[ColeVecsion]

sob sisters~! oh my~! i bet they're real mud butlers too~!

[Antreges]

its BS. you can't give the jury news clippings. they are suppose to be cut off from the outside world for the length of the trial.

[LordAmbitious]

you can't give it to them in court, hey are only cut off if they are sequestered, beyond that the jury is supposed to ignore anything beyond the facts on their own

[antonsnaps]

@Antreges

Not always...it depends on whether the court orders sequestration of the jury

[asdfghjkl2222]

@Antreges

cherry picking and red herrings. sneaky shit like this is why we should have two judges.

[theWEITNA]

@Antreges its about the watch not the clippings

[shawnofmetal]

@Antreges if they were sequestered

[fdbngkasjfbgi]

@Antreges in 12 angry men the jury go and investigate the crime scene!

[NichtOliver]

@Antreges That's true of high profile cases today, however when this movie was made jury sequestration wasn't routinely practiced.

[smartspick]

He's wayy to close to the jury, you should be about 6 ft away, it makes them uncomfortable

[RBlack999]

You don't always need to follow what the "book" says. You got to think for yourself. Sometimes the "uncomfortable"ness you cause can break down walls the jury have if you can charm them enough.

They don't teach that in law school.

[B0risTheBlade]

wrong era, man. back then there was no internet or 9 o'clock news...

[TheBelgianGod]

Great video. It is an very good example when training to debate. I think I will try to use such an example!

[Hotpocketmountiandew]

What is this crap? I mean, they didn't even use the Southpark voiceover once.

That has nothing to do with southpark.

Completely off topic= failing grade.

[LacyLuvsGodiva]

Wow. The video has nothing to do with Southpark.  It's not supposed to. Your ignorance=failing grade.

[ZombiePuppy]

Yeah, but the "Chewbacca Defense" term used in the title is from a South Park episode.

[kobil316SH]

LISTEN TO ZombiePuppy YOU MORONS

[JCeiver612]

its because he changes the subject like the lawyer on south park.

[iloooooovveegoldfish]

actually it does not matter if the video has anything what soever to do with south park. The chewbacca defense is just the name south park gave johnny chochran's method of using nonsense or abstract ideas to distract the jury so actually your ignorance=failing grade. 5 stars

[Momentum139]

Read the summary...you idiots.

[lwierd]

No, it is not a "red herring". It is filibuster, in other words just to hold the court's attention for as long as you can.

[booomtastic]

you can't filibuster in a courtroom in Illinois (or any other state)... no more than you can start handing out printed trash from the newspapers to the jury during your closing argument. Popular opinion is as irrelevant in a murder case as the price of onions. I think the Chewbacca Defense analog is spot on.

[HiredGunz]

analogy

[padaalsa]

People are inherently stupid, that's why this shit flies. In the words of Carlin "Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that!"

[alphamone]

indeed, that realy scares me.

[LuckbasedDPS]

if people are actually using that type of defense to sway the jury's vote, they need a IQ test before they put anyone on the jury so they don't fall for stupid shit like that.

[dvdp21]

Interesting to see this BS technique has been around even as early as 1958.

"Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major mobster, and I'm talkin' about my watch. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.

"If I got this watch from my father, you must acquit! The defense rests."

[finkster101]

was there a name for this rhetoric device before southpark coined it chewbacca defense?

[JustinHampel]

It's called a "red herring."

[brudswick]

what movie is that. it looks good

too bad old b&w movies arn't apreciated as much by society as they should be. thems were the good stuff.

[DragonWorship006]

didn't johnny cochran use the chewbacca defense or what?