Facts About Crack Cocaine

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I’m wondering if I screwed up on my New York Criminal Law exam. Here was the fact pattern. Man shoots his wife to death after allegedly, she had abused him for years. He claims that he grasped the weapon in self defense after he saw her turn to the kitchen to get a knife. Then the gun “went off.” I don’t remember if the test explicitly said the defense was arguing that that killing was uninentional but anyway he was charged with second degree intentional murder and his attorneys wanted to raise the defenses of 1) intoxication 2) extreme emotional disturbance and 3) self defense.
Further, the defense wanted to include testimony from his psychiatrist to determine whether the self defense was reasonably necessary.
Further, the court report stated that he had “had a few drinks” prior to the shooting and a witness testified (his mistress) that he had recently said he was back on cocaine after having stopped.