Defense attorneys

[farooq]

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

(A) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy
(B) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food
(C) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food
(D) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior
(E) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

OA B
What is wrong with the original statement ?

can two conjunction but and if come together?

[noun]

The problem is in the meaning of A. It tells that the perpetrators are attributing the bad behaviour to some allergy. But actually it should be the defence attorneys.

[khushboo143]

attributed to in B is the correct idiom