Woody Will Smith of KY Pleading “Caffeine Insanity” in Wife’s Murder
September 21st, 2010 - 1:29 am ICT by Angela Kaye MasonSep 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A Kentucky man who was charged with killing his wife by strangling her until she was dead with an extension cord is all set to plead “not guilty by reason of temporary insanity caused by excessive caffeine” after drinking sodas and energy drinks with diet pills.
Thirty three year old Woody Will Smith was charged with the murder of his wife in 2009, but says that during the time of the crime, he had been taking diet pills, and sucking down sodas and energy drinks in an effort to stay awake so that his wife would not have the chance to leave him. Smith claimed that his wife, Amanda Hornsby Smith had been having an affair and he was afraid that she was going to take off in the middle of the night with their two children.
He even has a psychologist to back his explanation. Dr. Robert Noelker stated that the defendant suffered from a “brief psychotic disorder that was triggered by lack of sleep. He stated that Smith was, “exquisitely vulnerable to development of the brief psychosis given his sleep deprivation and the cognitive effects brought about by Ephedra, caffeine, and other diet aids that he ingested in the two- to four-week period prior to the lethal assault of his wife.”
According to the Associated Press, although rare, such a defense has worked before.
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