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committed an act in a prosecutors can't establish that something wasn't accidental the jury can't convict, and so the defense is putting in in the water for the jury this notion that what prosecutors have not and will not be able to establish the mental state necessary. now, i think that's a bit of a stretch because you're talking about filling out a form and possessing a firearm and addiction, but that is how an effect good defense work goes. >> let me bring bruce into this conversation. bruce, what do you make of the defense's opening statements well, i think that it's a very nuanced defense. >> it's a technical defense based on mens rea, which is what? who was just being discussed. i mean, we don't punish people criminally in this country for making mistakes. we punish them for intentionally doing something wrong that they know is against the law. and it's even more nuanced than the addiction issue because the actual form says, are you an unlawful user of or picked it to. so if he's