Caffeine will make you kill people

So, for the past year I've been battling the caffeine demon.  I quit coffee cold turkey back in 2005 and didn't even miss it, but when I started drinking Red Bull (sugar free) a couple of years ago, I got so hooked that I would practically burst into tears at the thought of not drinking one every afternoon.  Then, I started drinking two a day and that was when I realized something had to give.  So, I quit cold turkey January 1st 2010.  And I missed it.  However, I got back into the swing of drinking more tea and enjoyed the morning ritual of making, and savoring, a cup of tea.  Yeah, I've totally fallen off the wagon and had a few Red Bulls here and there (more so recently, but I blame that on the insomnia that has snuck up on me again), but it's nothing compared to what I was consuming each day. 

I guess it's a good thing that I'm laying off the caffeine, because who knows, I could've potentially ended up like Woody Will Smith of Kentucky.  That poor sonofabitch is claiming he killed his wife because he was so tweaked on caffeine.  The guy was drinking sodas, energy drinks, and taking diet pills all at once and apparently lost his country shit and strangled his wife.  Apparently there is a legit diagnosis for "caffeine intoxication," which includes nervousness, excitement, insomnia and possibly rambling speech.  Did you know that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines an overdose as more than 300 mg? That's about three cups of coffee.  Woody Will Smith allegedly consumed 400 mgs, but was also so sleep deprived that he apparently went into a state of psychosis. 

There appears to be some holes in his story, but his lawyer is going to play the caffeine intoxication card in court.  A legal strategy invoking caffeine intoxication is unusual but has succeeded at least once before, in a case involving a man cleared in 2009 of charges of running down and injuring two people with a car in Washington state.