Plan B (law)

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Plan B is a common name for a legal strategy in which a defendant or targeted person turns on a friendly or unknowing witness and blames them for the accused actions.

For example, a defendant on trial for murder calls his wife to testify as to his alibi, however, once on the stand asks questions clearly implying that his wife committed the murder.

Plan B is often used as a verb (e.g. I'm afraid they are going to Plan B me in this case), and is often more generally used to describe those instances where another person is blamed for the crime.