When Jordan Ross was 19, he went to a party and allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl. Ross is now 21 and on trial for that sexual assault in Kansas. His defense attorney, realizing where they were, attempted to use a strategy that borders on absurdity or evil genius (or possibly both).

Kansas law says life begins at conception. So defense attorney Cooper Overstreet argued that the teen girl wasn’t actually 15. She was approximately nine months older than that… which would make her 16… which is the legal age of consent… and therefore, by definition, this could not be a case of “aggravated indecent liberties with a child” (which has nothing to do with consent and only concerns the age of the victim).