Posted on 01/25/2024 1:28:10 PM PST by Red Badger
A California woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend more than 100 times during what prosecutors called a "cannabis-induced" psychosis has been spared prison time, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The decision drew sobs of relief from the woman and a rebuke from the victim's father.
Bryn Spejcher, 32, was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, according to Ventura County Superior Court records. Last month, Spejcher was convicted in the 2018 fatal stabbing of Chad O'Melia, a man whom she had been dating for several weeks.
Bryn Spejcher
VENTURA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Testimony showed she stabbed O'Melia more than 100 times and also stabbed herself, the Ventura County Star reported.
After the sentence was handed down by Ventura County Superior Court Judge David Worley on Tuesday, Spejcher and her family cried tears of relief, the Ventura County Star reported, while the victim's father said the sentencing set a dangerous precedent.
"He just gave everyone in the state of California who smokes marijuana a license to kill someone," Sean O'Melia said, according to the outlet.
The sentence was handed down nearly four years after Spejcher went to O'Melia's apartment in Thousand Oaks, where they took multiple hits from a bong loaded with marijuana, the Ventura County District Attorney's Office said in a statement last month.
"Spejcher had an adverse reaction to the marijuana and suffered from what experts call Cannabis-Induced Psychotic Disorder," according to the statement. "During that psychotic episode, Spejcher stabbed Mr. O'Melia multiple times killing him."
Police officers who responded to the apartment found O'Melia lying in a pool of blood with Spejcher "screaming hysterically with a knife still in her hands." Before the officers could disarm her, Spejcher plunged the weapon, a long-serrated bread knife, into her own neck, the district attorney said in the statement.
Officers used a Taser and multiple baton blows before they were finally able to disarm and subdue Spejcher, authorities said.
O'Melia was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Spejcher was ultimately convicted by a jury of involuntary manslaughter.
The Ventura County Star reported that the day before Tuesday's hearing, family and friends of O'Melia marched in front of the county government center, carrying signs that said: "108 Stab Wounds Is A Serious Crime," and "Judge Worley, Do The Right Thing."
Spejcher's lawyer, Bob Schwartz, said he was pleased with the ruling, the outlet reported.
"Judge Worley did the right and courageous thing," Schwartz said.
She was high so it’s all good
Frigging vagina card
If the guy had stabbed her he’d have been locked up for life.
California, nuff said
The current version of the Twinkie Defense
And interesting fact...She had no problem smoking it years earlier while camping, in fact she laughed it after smoking it.
I’d guess this young lady obviously has some other issues in the mix.
I have an adverse reaction to almost everything around me these days. I don’t stab people over it. I learn from my unfortunate reactions and choose to focus on a new circumstance, or write a letter.
another foxy moxy Knoxy
Seems like a great drug to legalize. /s
......the victim’s father said the sentencing set a dangerous precedent. “He just gave everyone
in the state of California who smokes marijuana a license to kill someone,” Sean O’Melia said........
Words to remember.
Nobody forced the killer to light up. She did it of her own volition.....
not to help humanity, mind you........but to get high.
She’s a self centered individual who did not care who got in her way.
A young man had to brutally die for her selfishness.
Why couldnt the judge see this?
I’ll bet that knife is pretty dull now.
It is about time that we give the names and pictures of the judges deciding these non-punishments. To hear that “A” judge freed the recalcitrant is totally inadequate.
I believe in “Insane, but Guilty.”
Lucky for her she wasn’t also engaged in an “insurrection.”
Her lips say “I Love You”, but her eyes say, “Helter Skelter!”
But pot is a harmless drug…
She fatally stabbed her boyfriend, 100 times? How many times did he die?
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