Murder suspect claims 'caffeine insanity'

[TrooperBari]

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The new Twinkie defense?

NEWPORT, Ky. — 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 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.

 

[imjustagirl]

Woody Will Smith? That thar's a Kentucky name.

 

[Steak Snabler]

His lawyer didn't think the jury would buy that he was "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs."