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Devin K. Hoerauf, 19, was in court in Rockville, Md., to answer to multiple robbery charges.

When he stood up from the defense table, something fell out of his pocket: a bag full of marijuana.

His lawyer quickly jumped to his defense: "He is brain-damaged, your honor," she said. "I don't mean he's just a defendant who does dumb stuff.

This is a boy with an IQ in triple digits. His brain is glued together with Silly Putty. He can't think his way out of a paper bag, but he can do physics."

The lawyer, Gwyn Hoerauf, apparently knows: she's the defendant's mother.

The jury, who did not witness the drug incident, convicted the teen on four robbery counts. (Washington Post)

...A high IQ, but can't think his way out of a paper bag? Classic symptoms of long-term drug use.

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