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Murder Suspect to Plead Insanity by Caffeine
cbsnews.com ^ | Sept. 20, 2010

Posted on 09/20/2010 12:14:12 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(AP) 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caffeineaddiction; dopersrights; drugaddict; drugwar; napl
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To: Right Wing Assault

Or claim he was a Muslim terrorist doing it in the name of Islam.


21 posted on 09/20/2010 12:49:27 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: a fool in paradise

Woody Smith


22 posted on 09/20/2010 1:05:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Add Michael Moore’s accusation of mass murder against McDonalds.

Even as the nincompoops want to legalize marijuana and ban smoking.

Joe DiMaggio is turning in his grave.


23 posted on 09/20/2010 1:08:04 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: JoeProBono

He’s not guilty. His middle name isn’t “Wayne”.


24 posted on 09/20/2010 1:17:50 PM PDT by Ed Condon (Give 'em a heading, an altitude, and a reason.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

25 posted on 09/20/2010 1:20:24 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Obama, Pelosi and Reid - the Trio of Twits)
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To: JoeProBono

26 posted on 09/20/2010 1:22:14 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: GonzoGOP

According to Department of Prisons web-sites, Mountain Dew is the number one beverage choice for Last meals.
“Caffeine, it put the DIE in DIET COKE.”


27 posted on 09/20/2010 1:22:45 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey, give the poor guy a break. When you’re white, you have to come up with something unique!


28 posted on 09/20/2010 1:46:52 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What a crock.

Now, DEPRIVING me of my morning coffee is a death wish.


29 posted on 09/20/2010 2:03:29 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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To: LadyBuck

Touch my coffee I kill ya!


30 posted on 09/20/2010 2:15:58 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

Even the dogs know not to disturb “Mommy” until the coffeemaker beeps.


31 posted on 09/20/2010 2:25:12 PM PDT by LadyBuck (In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
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To: Nonstatist
I can’t think straight in the morning until I’ve had a cup of coffee.

Sooooo, before you've had your coffee, do you think crooked, or curved, or just 0,0,0 in 3D space?

32 posted on 09/20/2010 2:31:11 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: savedbygrace
Sooooo, before you've had your coffee, do you think crooked, or curved, or just 0,0,0 in 3D space?

Plot me on logarithmic paper and I come up as a sin curve.

33 posted on 09/20/2010 2:33:56 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: LadyBuck

I’m somewhat safe about my 4th cup, and that’s on a good day.


34 posted on 09/20/2010 2:49:56 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Nonstatist

LOL.


35 posted on 09/20/2010 2:54:49 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: SandRat

They had better not try and ban coffee. I’m not going to sit back and accept it like smokers have done. There will be hell to pay! ;-)


36 posted on 09/20/2010 2:59:48 PM PDT by upsdriver (The revolution begins on Nov. 2 to take back our country. The American people vs the ruling elite.)
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To: upsdriver

You and me both brother.


37 posted on 09/20/2010 3:01:18 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
I thought that insanity was caused by lack of caffeine?


38 posted on 09/20/2010 3:35:39 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I thought that insanity was caused by lack of caffeine?

It is. And an awful headache, which is probably worse than insanity.

39 posted on 09/20/2010 3:40:46 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Darksheare
Well... there is a certain way of brewing coffee that can have some very strange results.

But I never knew homicide could be one of the side effects

40 posted on 09/20/2010 4:07:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (there are huge chunks of time...at night...where I'm just asleep...for hours...it's ridiculous....)
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