GUILTY SC - Stewart Floyd, 41, disabled, shot to death at wife's wake, 22 Aug 2007

[Squishified]

It's the defense used by the killer of a gay councilman and Mayor George Moscone (San Francisco) a number of years ago. The killer (can't remember his name) used that he ate lots of carbs and that caused him to go beserk and kill 2 people. It's since been called the "twinkie defense."

Did the "twinkie" defense work? I honestly can't remember.

 

[SewingDeb]

Did the "twinkie" defense work? I honestly can't remember.

White was subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter, rather than of first degree murder. That verdict famously became vilified as being the result of "the Twinkie defense". It sparked rioting in San Francisco the so-called White Night Riots and ultimately led to the state of California abolishing the diminished capacity criminal defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone-Milk_assassinations

 

[SewingDeb]

Shana,

I think DS saw your post to me as judgemental and a put down. I appreciate him coming to my defense.

In answer to your question about whether or not this is a discussion forum, yes it is and we like to discuss without making other posters feel foolish.

Carry on.

 

[Squishified]

White was subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter, rather than of first degree murder. That verdict famously became vilified as being the result of "the Twinkie defense". It sparked rioting in San Francisco the so-called White Night Riots and ultimately led to the state of California abolishing the diminished capacity criminal defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone-Milk_assassinations

Thank you, SewingDeb!

 

[SewingDeb]

You're welcome Squishified. I love your name, too.

 

[OkieGranny]

From June 2008:

http://www.scnow.com/news/local/article_fe32c2d6-e9ef-5c07-9b25-50a615261f66.html

A man charged with shooting and killing his son-in-law following his daughter’s wake will serve a life sentence with no possibility of parole...

A jury found Herman Donald McKnight, 61, of 1614 Cockley Point Road in Coward guilty of murder in the Aug. 22 death of his son-in-law, 41-year-old Stewart Floyd of Turbeville.

Jurors took 35 minutes Friday to find McKnight also guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, discharging a firearm into a dwelling and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, Clements said.