Just when you think you’ve heard every ridiculous excuse in the world (remember the fat guy who claimed he couldn’t have murdered his wife because he was too fat…), along comes an even more absurd one.
A 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 his wife, 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.
How doofy. If caffeine made you crazy, Mark Stevens, Joel Watts, me, Chris Tilling, and Ben Myers would all be over the edge and would have gone there years ago. Mr Smith needs to take responsibility and stop trying to blame Folgers and Red Bull. The real reason Smith did it- he’s totally depraved.
Zwinglius Redivivus 
Grasping for straws to save his client, that is no better than using intoxication as a defense, which is generally not allowed.
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I’ve just returned, to read these words, from drinking a Latte in a Coffee shop! I ought to kill something right away!
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lol
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I’m reading these words while enjoying my first cup of the day! I have used this defence more than you can imagine!
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Please don’t even say Folgers. Anyway, this guy had the equivalent of four cups of coffee.
Jeff
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