Defenses of Insanity "I had too much Caffeine"

http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/weird/hit-and-run-driver-gets-off-after-blaming-his-actions-on-too-much-coffee/story-e6frep26-1225933158602

WHEN US man Daniel Noble ran over two pedestrians with his speeding car and then tried make a quick getaway, police assumed he must have been drinking.

When Daniel Noble ran over two pedestrians with his speeding car and then tried make a quick getaway, police assumed he must have been drinking too much.

And his lawyer agreed - only he claimed Noble drank too much coffee.

Attorney Mark Moorer said the frantic Washington State-based financial analyst was downing two pots of coffee and four energy drinks a day at the time of the accident in 2009 where two students, Neil Waldbjorn, 19, and Hogun Hahm, 23, both suffered broken legs.

Moorer insisted that ‘caffeine-induced psychosis’ was to blame for 31-year-old Noble’s bizarre behaviour.

And, in a precedent-setting decision, a judge has agreed - dropping all charges after ruling that Noble is incompetent to stand trial.

The ruling came down in May, but the story of Noble's defence is emerging on the internet this past week after a Kentucky man used a similar defence for why he had strangled his wife.

Woody Will Smith, 33, says he had so many sodas, energy drinks and diet pills that he he couldn't have knowingly killed his wife, Amanda, 28 on May 4, 2009.