“The 32-year-old woman, while under the influence of drugs, thought she was dead and believed that the only way to bring herself back to life was to kill the 26-year-old man,” said a deputy prosecutor at the trial.
A 32-year-old California woman is on trial for manslaughter after she stabbed her partner 108 times, killed her dog and then tried to kill herself.
The reason Bryn Spejcher is facing this charge is because she claims that her state of mind at the time he had ‘changed’ because of the hashish he had smoked.
The 32-year-old is accused of stabbing 26-year-old Chad O’Melia 108 times in his apartment about 25 miles outside Los Angeles in 2018. She herself dated him for a few weeks.
Prosecutors sought a lesser charge in late September as a medical examiner submitted a report that found Bryn Spejcher’s condition was ‘acutely psychotic’ during the extreme period of violence. So the judge finally proceeded to reduce the sentence requested by the state.
According to law and crime, the state’s request came as a shock to the parents and relatives of the 26-year-old.
As the Deputy District Attorney states in her statement “The 32-year-old while under the influence of drugs thought she was dead and believed that the only way to bring herself back was to kill the 26-year-old”.
The 32-year-old stabbed the man in the neck, chest, knee, head and heart while also killing her beloved Husky and then tried to kill himself.
Her defense says she has no history of mental illness, so there was no way she knew hashish would cause her to have a psychotic episode.
Defense attorney Robert Schwartz also said his client was pressured to smoke weed by O’Melia that night.
Source :Skai
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