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| | Subject: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:33 am | |
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Can too much caffeine make you insane - and mentally unstable enough to unknowingly kill someone?
That's a question a Newport, Kentucky, jury will have to answer when they eventually deliberate in the trial of a man whose lawyer is expected to claim that too much soda, caffeine-laced diet pills and the energy drink No Fear - combined with sleep deprivation - meant he had no idea what he was doing when he killed his wife.
Woody Will Smith's murder trial begins Monday, and according to the Kentucky Enquirer, Smith's lawyer will argue that the combination of all that caffeine was responsible for the death of his wife.
Amanda Hornsby-Smith was strangled with an extension cord in 2009 - and now Smith is facing life in prison if he is found guilty of murdering his wife in their home.
Defense attorneys are expected to focus on a psychological evaluation conducted by an expert that determined Smith couldn't be criminally responsible for the murder because he was suffering a temporary psychotic disorder based on the lack of sleep and use of amphetamine and caffeine products, the Enquirer reported.
"This dissociative belief and intense paranoid delusions are the direct result of the ingestion of large amounts of caffeine and diet pills,"a psychologist wrote in his report, according to the paper.
The prosecutor is expected to call her own witness, the paper said, who will refute the entire argument as utter bullshit.
It's not the first time a caffeine-induced defense has been heard in a courtroom. Last year a Whitman County judge dropped charges against Daniel Noble, who blamed too much caffeine as the reason he lost control of his car and hit someone on the Washington State University-Pullman campus. The accident didn't kill the victim, but did cause nerve damage and several broken bones.
The judge made the ruling after hearing testimony from several medical experts - but Noble also had been diagnosed as bi-polar. However, as part of the ruling, the judge made it a condition that Noble not be allowed to consume caffeine Source: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/20/murder-defense-too-much-caffeine/?hpt=T2I drink at least 3 cups of coffee every day, that must mean I'm 2 cups away from being a murderer | |
| | | | Supernova
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:12 am | |
| He was drinking soda AND energy drinks WHILE taking diet pills AFTER he found out about his wife's affair. It sounds to me like he was planning in advance for a defense. | |
| | | | RedBedroom
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:43 am | |
| Good point Super. I was thinking that this defence is not unlike a person who claims they were on a meth/coke binge. Pretty much just an excuse, but not a good defence. | |
| | | | Chris
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:59 pm | |
| Reminds me of the "Twinkie Defense." | |
| | | | Supernova
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:07 pm | |
| Let's just hope this jury isn't as stupid as that one. | |
| | | | TSJFan4Ever
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:57 pm | |
| That's about as stupid as one of the school counsellors telling me last year that whining was disability of the kid I worked with. Whining a disability? More likely this kid is a spoiled rotten brat who's used to getting his way by whining. It's certainly not his disability.
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| | | | Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:49 pm | |
| - Supernova wrote:
- He was drinking soda AND energy drinks WHILE taking diet pills AFTER he found out about his wife's affair.
Ah...the perfect storm. | |
| | | | Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Man Kills Wife, Blames Caffeine. Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:50 pm | |
| - Chris wrote:
- Reminds me of the "Twinkie Defense."
That's the first thing I thought of too. | |
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