http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20100711/NEWS010704/7120312/Homicide-suspect-will-blame-caffeine

Quote :

"NEWPORT - A lawyer for Woody Smith claims the man strangled his wife during a caffeine-induced bout of insanity. Defense lawyer Shannon Sexton's request to show jurors caffeine-laced diet pills and the energy drink No Fear has caused the trial to be delayed. Instead of starting Monday, it will begin Aug. 30 before Campbell Circuit Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward. Smith faces up to life in prison if found guilty of murder for using an extension cord to strangle his 28-year-old wife in May 2009 in the couple's Dayton home. Sexton appears to want the items introduced to support a mental-health defense. A psychological evaluation by the defense concluded that Smith was not criminally responsible for the killing. Psychologist Robert Noelker of Williamstown said Smith suffered from a brief psychotic disorder based on lack of sleep caused by consumption of high levels of caffeine, Ephedra or amphetamine-type substances. "

So, for all you hooker killers, make sure you get jacked up on RedBull and Caffeine pills before you do kill them, or at least have half a case lying around next to 3/4ths of a bottle of pills.

7/12/2010 12:07:26 PM

k thanks

7/12/2010 12:11:12 PM

If you can't use any drug use as a defense for murder, than this won't work. Caffeine is basically just a lesser crystal meth.

7/12/2010 12:11:29 PM

^ k, welcome.

7/12/2010 12:11:38 PM

^^ except one is legal and one isn't.

that is probably of some importance.

7/12/2010 12:12:14 PM

It isn't, since the effects of both are known.

7/12/2010 12:12:49 PM

haha. ok.

7/12/2010 12:13:37 PM

i get pretty mean when people fuck with me when i'm jacked on redbull and adderall during exam time and i'm trying to study and shit........

but i have never strangled a bitch I mean damn

7/12/2010 12:14:04 PM

khcadwal why are you so mean to me

7/12/2010 12:14:57 PM

I mean, if the twinkie defense worked, why should we be surprised that things like this would follow

7/12/2010 12:15:34 PM

He was so excited

He was so scared!

7/12/2010 12:16:03 PM

^^^ She's mean to everyone.

[Edited on July 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM. Reason : .]

7/12/2010 12:16:47 PM

true

and i'm drinking red bull right now. so watch out.

7/12/2010 12:17:36 PM

OH SHIT!!!! WE HAVE A KILLER ON TWW!

7/12/2010 12:18:24 PM

Quote :

"The prosecution is prepared to call its own expert witness to say there is no evidence to support Smith's claims he took the substances. Smith tested negative for any amphetamine-type substances in the hours after the killing, Snodgrass said. An autopsy report, however, shows the substances were present in Hornsby-Smith's body. "For all we know, the diet pills could have been hers," Snodgrass said. Sexton said Smith was consuming the pills and drinks to avoid falling asleep because he feared his wife would leave him during the night and take their two children. Smith thought his wife was having an affair, according to court records."

7/12/2010 12:20:42 PM