EP 67: 02/07/24 - Woman Sentenced To Probation and Community Service For Stabbing A Man To Death

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.