LSD News: LSD abuse blamed for brutal murder of student.

[rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski]

For those tired of the DXM news posts of mine, I found a report where
a 16 year old LSD abuser viciously beat a female Japanese student to
death in Vermont. The alleged murderer plans to use the insanity defense
in court and blame this on his drug abuse.

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=1334779&ClientType=Printable

Judge OKs Insanity Defense

Burlington, Vermont - June 24, 2003

A judge has ruled that confessed killer Jacob Sexton, 18, Winooski, can
use the insanity defense at trial.

Sexton is charged with the murder of Atsuko Ikeda,39, a Japanese
exchange student who was beaten to death in September 2001. She was
attacked while bicycling to her Winooski apartment after classes at St.
Michael's College, according to police.

Sexton was arrested when police arrived at the crime scene and found
Sexton lying in the road.

Sexton, 16 at the time of the killing, confessed that he had been using
LSD, marijuana, and cocaine for weeks, was angry, and wanted to "kill
the first person I saw," when he spotted Ikeda bicycling in front of his
residence, according to police.

Sexton ran out and punched the petite woman so forcefully that he broke
his hand, according to police.

Sexton pleaded innocent to second degree murder. He was evaluation at
the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury where state psychiatrists
determined that Sexton was mentally competent. He has reportedly
remained mentally competent while being held awaiting trial, according
to court records.

However, two court-appointed psychiatrists also examined Sexton and
reported that Sexton was temporarily insane when he killed Ikeda,
according to court records.

Sexton suffered from intermittent bouts with psychosis that were
exacerbated on the night of the murder by his prolonged use of illegal
drugs, rendering him temporarily insane in a drug-induced delusion when
he killed Ikeda, according to the psychiatrists' reports.

Based on the psychiatric evaluations, Sexton's lawyers filed their
intent to use an insanity defense at trial.

Prosecutors challenged the request, arguing that suspects who commit
crimes after voluntarily using illegal drugs are barred from using an
insanity defense.

However, in a ruling handed down Tuesday, Judge James Cruccitti ruled
that Vermont law permits Sexton to use the insanity defense.

Prosecutors are considering an appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court.

[BilZ0r]

>> This is the only realistic defense I can see coming. If Sexton's
>> lawyers decide to just blame LSD for the murder, Sexton is going to
>> jail for a long, long time.
>
> Good point. If he was psychotic before he took the LSD, and the court
> ordered psychiatrists said he was, then it can reasonably be argued he
> could not rationally evaluate the implications of abusing LSD. His
> lawyers need to argue he was crazy before he took LSD, and that when he
> did the LSD made also made him homicidal.

The real point isn't whether you were "crazy" its if you were so crazy that
you didn't know the difference between right and wrong.

[michael]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:35:36 -0400, "rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski"
<rfgdxm@mochamail.com> wrote:

> For those tired of the DXM news posts of mine, I found a report where
>a 16 year old LSD abuser viciously beat a female Japanese student to
>death in Vermont. The alleged murderer plans to use the insanity defense
>in court and blame this on his drug abuse.
>
>Sexton, 16 at the time of the killing, confessed that he had been using
>LSD, marijuana, and cocaine for weeks, was angry, and wanted to "kill
>the first person I saw," when he spotted Ikeda bicycling in front of his
>residence, according to police.

Looks like he claimed he was taking cocaine and LSD. I believe that
was the same mix that the guy who stalked and killed rebecca shaeffer
took.

[Luke D. Goddard]

michael <yost61@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bkmmhvkse563ktelfedjdi62ev8qctoin9@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:35:36 -0400, "rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski"
> <rfgdxm@mochamail.com> wrote:
>
> > For those tired of the DXM news posts of mine, I found a report where
> >a 16 year old LSD abuser viciously beat a female Japanese student to
> >death in Vermont. The alleged murderer plans to use the insanity defense
> >in court and blame this on his drug abuse.
> >
> >Sexton, 16 at the time of the killing, confessed that he had been using
> >LSD, marijuana, and cocaine for weeks, was angry, and wanted to "kill
> >the first person I saw," when he spotted Ikeda bicycling in front of his
> >residence, according to police.
>
> Looks like he claimed he was taking cocaine and LSD. I believe that
> was the same mix that the guy who stalked and killed rebecca shaeffer
> took.

I'm always imagined those two to be a bad idea...except perhaps doing coke
awhile before you dropped or a ways after the peak.

[Acid Pooh]

BilZ0r <BilZ0r@TAKETHISOUThotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93BF9AA145114BilZ0rhotmailcom@202.20.93.13>...
> >> This is the only realistic defense I can see coming. If Sexton's
> >> lawyers decide to just blame LSD for the murder, Sexton is going to
> >> jail for a long, long time.
> >
> > Good point. If he was psychotic before he took the LSD, and the court
> > ordered psychiatrists said he was, then it can reasonably be argued he
> > could not rationally evaluate the implications of abusing LSD. His
> > lawyers need to argue he was crazy before he took LSD, and that when he
> > did the LSD made also made him homicidal.
>
> The real point isn't whether you were "crazy" its if you were so crazy that
> you didn't know the difference between right and wrong.

No, the real point is whether or not he was in an unfit state of mind
to decide whether or not to do acid. If the defense argues that he
was not in a fit state, they will argue that he was not responsible
for the actions he commited while he was unfit. It won't even matter
at which point he became homicidal, although I bet the defense
attorney will argue that it was after the acid and coke. :( Probably
something along the lines of... "psychedelics, cocaine, food and sleep
deprivation, etc, intensified his psychotic break and drove him to
murder."

Come on BilZ0r, "right and wrong"? These are the 00's.

ap

[BilZ0r]

> Come on BilZ0r, "right and wrong"? These are the 00's.
>
> ap
>

Well maybe the law in the US, is different from that in canada, the UK and
the rest of the "western" world, but thats how its set up everywhere else.