The attorneys noted that the wording of the disorderly conduct law "requires that the conduct at issue have a tendency to alarm or anger 'others.'" They argued that Craig's conduct could not have alarmed "others" because there was only a single witness to the event, a police officer, and that even the officer could not have been alarmed, since he was assigned to look for such behavior.

This unusual argument caught the attention of Don Shelby, an anchor for Minneapolis CBS affiliate WCCO, who commented, "I'm tired of talking about Larry Craig, but I can't resist his latest attempt to get out of his guilty plea."

"We're going to have a court case that will parse the word 'others,'" Shelby stated, noting that it was "reminiscent of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony, when we couldn't figure out what the meaning of 'is' was."

"Better still is the presumptive witness list," Shelby concluded. "I could imagine both Merriam and Webster being there, and every English teacher any of us ever had."

The Hill has more on Craig's defense here.

This video was broadcast on January 8th on WCCO CBS 4 News.