'I really thought I was going to prison': Woman convicted of killing man during marijuana-induced psychosis speaks out yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
'I really thought I was going to prison': Woman who killed man during marijuana-induced psychosis speaks out yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
California woman who stabbed lover 108 times in psychotic weed attack appeals conviction - despite being sentenced to NO jail time dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Prosecutors argued that the horrific crime and the lenient sentence could set a dangerous precedent, but defense claims it's not as simple as it seems.
Lawyers for the California woman who avoided prison time after stabbing her boyfriend 108 times in a marijuana-induced psychotic episode — killing him — stand behind their defense, insisting it was not a "con job" but a reaction to ultra-potent weed.
California double-murderer Shawn Shirck, 29, served fewer than four years in prison in the same county where Bryn Spejcher, 33, got probation this week for killing her boyfriend in a pot-induced psychosis. Lawyers for both defendants asserted they were incapable of intending to murder their victims due to their intoxicated states -- an argument that has outraged relatives of their victims.
Lax punishment for killers has seemingly become commonplace in one SoCal county - after two cons managed to escape stern sentences in their respective cases