Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Woody Smith: Caffeine Intoxication


In May of 2009, a Kentucky man named Woody Smith claimed that he had been being cuckolded by his wife, Amanda Hornsby-Smith, for some time. After this discovery, he gained a fear of his wife leaving him and taking their two children with her. For nearly a week he was unable to sleep, using diet pills, energy drinks, and caffeinated sodas to stay vigilant. On May 9, police reported that Smith had strangled his wife with an extension cord and later wielded the cord to bind her feet together. Smith claims that he remembers dropping his kids off at school, but that the rest of his day was a complete fog.
The attorney representing Smith, Shannon Sexton, has argued that her client was unable to muster up the intent required to commit the crime due to caffeine intoxication and lack of sleep. A psychologist, Dr. Robert Noelker, has analyzed Smith and is willing to serve as a defense witness, aiding the claim that the murder was due to temporary insanity. However, the prosecutors have an expert to testify that no evidence of the energy pills or drinks showed when Smith was tested shortly after the murder.

**UPDATE**
After Smith’s trial, in which he was pleading not guilty to murder, the jury took just one hour to find him guilty of the charge and to suggest giving him a life sentence. 

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