Chain of causation
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Legal term used to describe a situation in which a person who seems to be entirely at fault for an event that is punishable by sizable fine and/or [jailtime] can prove that it was not his or herfault.
Also, whiny, non-responsibility-taking, foolish, [last-ditch] effort to [defer] blame.
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