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Under California criminal law, people are responsible for their actions when impaired by alcohol or drugs unless their intoxication was involuntary. So, a woman had been seeing a man for about 2 weeks before they smoked marijuana together at his apartment. She claimed that she was under a psychotic episode brought on by marijuana use, and therefore not responsible for the killing of the man. The judge agreed with the defense and reduced her sentence from only 4 years in state prison to probation and community service. There's something seriously wrong with our system in which a person is convicted of killing someone but the punishment doesn't match the crime. Tim Rupp discusses this story and his thoughts on the criminal justice system.
Under California criminal law, people are responsible for their actions when impaired by alcohol or drugs unless their intoxication was involuntary. So, a woman had been seeing a man for about 2 weeks before they smoked marijuana together at his apartment. She claimed that she was under a psychotic episode brought on by marijuana use, and therefore not responsible for the killing of the man. The judge agreed with the defense and reduced her sentence from only 4 years in state prison to probation and community service. There's something seriously wrong with our system in which a person is convicted of killing someone but the punishment doesn't match the crime. Tim Rupp discusses this story and his thoughts on the criminal justice system.