At the end of the film the title cards claim that Dan White's lawyers claimed that his consumption of junk food had caused a chemical imbalance in his brain. This is a widely held misapprehension about White's defense strategy that has become popularly known as the "Twinkie defense." In reality, White's lawyers claimed that his massive consumption of junk food was a symptom, not a cause, of his depression. Psychologists employed by White's defense argued that he was clinically depressed, and pointed to several changes in behavior, among them the consumption of mass quantities of junk food, as evidence of that depression. One of these psychologists claimed, as an aside, that the food may have contributed to White's mood swings, but it was never claimed that they caused his mental problems. A November 2003 article by Carol Pogash in the SF Gate, "Myth of the 'Twinkie Defense,'" systematically debunks this narrative.

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