Woody Will Smith Caffeine Murder Defense, Trial Begins

by NowPublic Staff | September 20, 2010 at 12:16 pm

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Caffeine Murder Defense : Woody Will Smith Murder Defense After Consuming Diet Pills And No Fear Energy Drink, Campbell Circuit Court Trial

The defense will argue that a sleep deprived, Woody Will Smith, was suffering from a caffeine induced rage when he allegedly strangled his wife Amanda Hornsby Smith.

The murder trial of Woody Will Smith begins Monday at a Campbell Circuit Court. Smith, 33, from Dayton, Ohio is accused of murdering his wife, Amanda Hornsby-Smith, 28, by strangling her with an extension court in the couples home in May of 2009.

It was delayed in July after Commonwealth's Attorney Michelle Snodgrass asked for time to test the chemical makeup of caffeine-laced diet pills and the energy drink No Fear the defendant claimed he had taken in the days leading up to the killing...

A psychological evaluation by the defense concluded that Smith was not criminally responsible for the killing. Psychologist Robert Noelker of Williamstown said Smith suffered from a brief psychotic disorder based on lack of sleep caused by consumption of high levels of caffeine, ephedra or amphetamine-type substances.

The murder trial has been delayed because the defense asked for time to test the chemical make up of the diet pills and the No Fear energy drink Smith had been consuming prior to the murder.

The prosecutor is expected to call her own witness, the paper said, who will refute the entire argument.

It's not the first time a caffeine-induced defense has been heard in a courtroom. Last year a Whitman County judge dropped charges against Daniel Noble, who blamed too much caffeine as the reason he lost control of his car and hit someone on the Washington State University-Pullman campus. The accident didn't kill the victim, but did cause nerve damage and several broken bones.