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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Involuntary intoxication will never fly as a defense. Prosecution will put the husband on the stand and ask if she was acting strange or intoxicated or out of it when he left her alone with THREE young children including an infant. I think we all know what his answer has to be. [/quote]

You misunderstand the legal definitions here. Involuntary intoxication doesn’t mean high or impaired like by alcohol or other similar substances. It means that she was subject to the effects of the drugs prescribed which in some cases can be suicidality and homicidal thoughts. Those effects would not necessarily be obvious to her husband as the effects of alcoholic or other high-inducing drugs would be. But it is still intoxicating in the way that those drugs can be.

This might be confusing for you and apologies if I’m not helping to clarify but I assure you it is a concept that all the criminal lawyers and judges will grasp and for which there is a sound legal basis in statute and case law.[/quote]

[b]You sound suspiciously similar to the PP prosecutor [/b]claiming this was a textbook case of postpartum psychosis and that we just didn’t understand that and the legal system.  Please point us to the statutes and case law - she willingly took these drugs with knowledge and involvement of her husband.  The side effects and warnings are all over them.  This isn’t the case of someone who was slipped something unknowingly.  Finding her not guilty in these circumstances would create an insanely slippery slope.[/quote]
The one that ran away when she couldn’t cite medical studies to back up the crap she was spewing?[/quote]

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