Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ miscond

Hi Shikhar,

Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, butin attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy , the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.


In the underlined portion of the sentence, the verb-ing modifier “in attributing…” is modifying the subject of the following clause which is “the perpetrators”. This suggests that the perpetrators