Irvinecommuter
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WillJoy said:Yes, I looked it up online and temp insanity is a stretch. But the same article brings up this following option:
Another form of the insanity defense is volitional insanity, or Irresistible Impulse. A defense of irresistible impulse asserts that the defendant, although able to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the act, suffered from a mental disease or defect that made him or her incapable of controlling her or his actions. This defense is common in crimes of vengeance.
I hear the woman who also got stabbed was his wife. She is lucky that he spared her life.
That gets him second degree murder rather than first degree.
Him having a knife in the car pretty much takes that option out.