A man is accused of having sex with the carcass of a deer that he found lying beside the road ? but his lawyer denies that he committed bestiality, on the grounds that a dead deer isn?t an animal any more.

20-year-old Bryan James Hathaway of Superior, Wisconsin allegedly had sex with the deer corpse after he found it on the roadside on October 11 this year. Authorities say he told police that he noticed the deer lying in a ditch, and then moved the corpse into the woods.

He is charged with ?sexual gratification with an animal? ? but in a magnificent piece of legal footwork, his attorney argues that he can?t be guilty of that crime, because a carcass isn?t an animal, the Duluth News Tribune reports.

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