Is PMS a valid defense for manslaughter?

Question

Or should I just plead insanity?

(No I couldn't harm a flea.... I just want to. ARghhh)

Answer 1

I'm not going to claim originality for this but I got this in an e-mail and it just cracked me up. Forgive the length but it is SO funny and appropriate!

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Answer 2

Not as whimsical as it sounds. Postpartum depression has been used as a defense in court. I guess it is whatever bloats your boat. If it is an honorable discharge there should be no problem. Why is it pre menstrual syndrome? Why not pre womenstrentrual syndrome? Damn there are some good answers here. I vote for Cyndie's e-mail. I don't know who wrote it, but it was hysterical. Do you have a little F-16 in your Capri pants? Have a happy period.

Answer 3

Manslaughter. there became no instantaneous risk to a minimum of one's existence anymore that justified using a deadly weapon. Leaving the domicile and then calling the law enforcement officers to ascertain the placement could have been a wonderfully potential direction of action. One, as you reported, isn't legally required to flow away one's domicile and you may still submit some degree of resistance against being compelled to take action. in basic terms pulling the gun and pointing it on the attacker could be potential and suited there methinks. yet easily killing somebody over this could in many situations be seen extreme, deadly self defence in many situations in basic terms is suitable while one's very existence is in risk. no longer one's belongings rights or rights to be in a definite place.

Answer 4

No, but it might be taken seriously as mitigation, or possibly change your plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. I do know the feeling of wanting to kill irritating people when you are feeling at your most primitive, but the courts are uneven on these sorts of issues. Remember that most mental evidence comes in at the sentencing stage, to reduce your sentence, not to get you off scot free. And there's also the fact that if you get off as not guilty by reason of insanity, you will probably have to be committed to a mental hospital instead.

Remember "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Answer 5

I'm with you. And I think there was one court case where they accepted PMS as a valid defense for manslaughter.

I told my boyfriend today that if he only had half the pain I'm going through right now, he would understand why I go mad every other month...

I think he's thanking God now for painkillers.

Answer 6

I doubt it...really...but for a small some of cookies, I'll back my mothership over the one who offended you and just say the mirror obstructed...then you don't have to worry about "harming" that little flea! LOL!

Answer 7

It should be a valid defense. I become a real BIt3$ a week before and hell on wheels during...go curl up in the bed.

Answer 8

No dear...men are the most valid defense for manslaughter

Answer 9

I know exactly how you feel and many times I tell my boyfriend how I am pmsing and I could get off if I strangle him.....but the truth is there is nothing really you can say if you kill someone....even insanity will give you lock up.

Answer 10

PMS? Are we talking Post Marital Syndrome?

Well, if you do go to jail... i'll be first in line with a pack of smokes ( they are used for currency in the big house ) & something that vibrates... ( I imagine you'll need this after a while )

Remember... i'm there for you...lololol!