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A California female who sewage retired of jailhouse scot-free aft stabbing her fellow 108 times successful a marijuana-induced psychosis is appealing her slap-on-the-wrist conviction, arguing that she was tricked into utilizing nan supplier to statesman with.
Bryn Spejcher, 32, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter aft she stabbed Chad O'Melia, 26, dozens of times earlier turning nan weapon connected her canine and past herself.
She received a condemnation of 2 years connected probation and 100 hours of organization service.
LAWYER FOR CALIFORNIA WOMAN AVOIDING JAIL IN MARIJUANA STABBING STANDS BY ‘PSYCHOTIC’ DEFENSE: ‘NOT A CON JOB’
Bryn Spejcher reacts arsenic nan assemblage finds her blameworthy of manslaughter connected Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, for nan 2018 cannabis-induced sidesplitting of Chad O'Melia. Jurors deliberated little than a time earlier returning their verdict successful nan afternoon. (ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR / USA TODAY NETWORK)
In a caller interview, she revealed she plans to entreaty nan slap connected nan wrist because she believes O'Melia tricked her into utilizing nan drug, she told nan Daily Mail.
Although nan 2 were dating, Spejcher told nan outlet she ne'er considered O'Melia her charismatic fellow and said she told him she nary longer had immoderate romanticist liking successful him 2 days earlier sidesplitting him.
She claimed he was aggressive, intimidating and had a temper, she told nan outlet. So erstwhile he encouraged her to deed a bong connected nan time of nan stabbing, she gave into nan unit -- past went into a deadly psychosis.
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Sean O'Melia joined 'America's Newsroom' to retrieve his son, Chad, who was fatally stabbed by a California woman. (The O'Melia Family)
"Yes, I physically inhaled it," she said. "So, we're some accountable, but there's evidently been much attraction to my portion [in nan attack] versus Chad's part."
Her lawyers person maintained that O'Melia introduced her to a hyper-potent strain of marijuana that she wasn't fresh for, resulting successful an adverse guidance that sent her into a deadly craze. They did not instantly respond to questions astir nan entreaty Friday morning, earlier business hours connected nan West Coast.
"The defense presented successful tribunal was not a ‘con job’ arsenic immoderate person described it," her lawyer Michael Goldstein told Fox News Digital aft nan first sentencing.
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Bryn Spejcher, left, was sentenced to 100 days of organization work aft stabbing Chad O'Melia, right, 108 times successful his LA apartment. (Ventura County District Attorney's Office/Fox & Friends First)
Months earlier nan fatal encounter, O'Melia's roommate besides had an "extreme reaction" aft smoking retired of nan aforesaid bong, Goldstein said. He suffered hallucinations and fearfulness of death.
Spejcher had only smoked cookware little than a half-dozen times anterior to nan stabbing, her lawyers said, describing her arsenic a "naive user." She worked astatine nan UCLA Medical Center arsenic an audiologist and is proceeding impaired herself.
"The defense of ‘cannabis-induced psychosis’ was based chiefly connected nan grounds of some renowned psychiatrist Dr. William Wirshing and prosecution master Dr. Kris Mohandie," Goldstein said.
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Sean O'Melia, right, chats pinch different protesters successful a objection held nan time earlier Tuesday's sentencing of Bryn Spejcher, convicted of involuntary manslaughter successful nan sidesplitting of Chad O'Melia, Sean's son. (TOM KISKEN/THE STAR / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Wirshing and Mohandie were among 4 experts whose activity was cited successful nan trial. They some recovered that nan explosive violence was "unpredictable" and "unforeseeable," Goldstein said.
The circumstantial strain contained a 31.8% THC level and a informing explanation that said, "Caution, for High Tolerance Users Only," he added. According to nan Yale School of Medicine, nan mean THC contented successful cannabis seized by nan DEA was 4% successful 1995 and had risen to 17% successful 2017.
Marijuana is ineligible in California for prescribed medicinal users complete 18 and recreational users supra 21.
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Chief Deputy District Attorney Audry Nafziger addresses nan assemblage during nan manslaughter proceedings of Bryn Spejcher connected Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Spejcher, who was recovered guilty, was sentenced to probation and organization service. (JUAN CARLO/THE STAR / USA TODAY NETWORK)
A hunt of SweetFlower.com, nan website for a Los Angeles-based dispensary, recovered marijuana "flower" for waste legally pinch THC levels arsenic precocious arsenic 39%. Similar levels were disposable Friday from a section competitor, The Artist Tree.
Processed and concentrated products tin incorporate up to 90% THC, Goldstein added.
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"Nobody seems to want to reside this issue," he said.
O'Melia's father, who organized a protestation extracurricular nan courthouse for Spejcher's no-prison sentencing hearing, told Fox News successful January that nan strategy has "completely failed" his boy and nan family erstwhile Spejcher received a reward of conscionable 2 years of probation, 100 hours of organization work and nary situation time.
