The caffeine defense.

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highland145

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I drank 6 5-hour energy drinks. Think I'll kill someone. Ooooh, there's my wife.

A Northern Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn't have knowingly killed her, his lawyer has notified a court. Woody Will Smith, 33, is scheduled for trial starting Monday on a murder charge in the May 2009 death of Amanda Hornsby-Smith, 28.
Defense attorney Shannon Sexton filed notice with the Newport court of plans to argue his client ingested so much caffeine in the days leading up to the killing that it rendered him temporarily insane - unable even to form the intent of committing a crime.

But Smith remembers little else about the ensuing hours. In the weeks preceding May 4, 2009, Woody Smith told Noelker, he hadn't been sleeping, in part out of fear his wife would take their two children and leave him.
Clearer now.
http://www.fox19.com/Global/story.asp?S=13181855
 

MJinZ

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If excessive caffeine causes temporary insanity, 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 regular users have not noticed.
 
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