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Abbreviation for Some Other Dude Did It. A defense that blames others for the acts or criminal conduct.

A district court is not free to dismiss logically relevant evidence as speculative: '[I]f the evidence [that someone else committed the crime] is in truth calculated to cause the jury to doubt, the court should not attempt to decide for the jury that this doubt is purely speculative and fantastic but should afford the accused every opportunity to create that doubt.' United States v. Vallejo, 237 F.3d 1008, 1023 (9th Cir. 2001) (quoting John Henry Wigmore, Evidence in Trials at Common Law § 139 ...