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That's not kettle logic, that's a mode of legal argumentation that deals with boolean "and" constructions of a law.

If some charge requires both [A] and [B] for the accused to be guilty, then this argument is that it's neither [A] nor [B], but the defendant is innocent if they can prove either half of the argument, since the condition is "[A] and [B]", not "[A] or [B]".



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